This content is not included in
your SAE MOBILUS subscription, or you are not logged in.
Has Electronic Stability Control Reduced Rollover Crashes?
Technical Paper
2019-01-1022
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
This content contains downloadable datasets
Annotation ability available
Sector:
Language:
English
Abstract
Vehicle rollovers are one of the more severe crash modes in the US - accounting for 32% of all passenger vehicle occupant fatalities annually. One design enhancement to help prevent rollovers is Electronic Stability Control (ESC) which can reduce loss of control and thus has great promise to enhance vehicle safety. The objectives of this research were (1) to estimate the effectiveness of ESC in reducing the number of rollover crashes and (2) to identify cases in which ESC did not prevent the rollover to potentially advance additional ESC development.
All passenger vehicles and light trucks and vans that experienced a rollover from 2006 to 2015 in the National Automotive Sampling System Crashworthiness Database System (NASS/CDS) were analyzed. Each rollover was assigned a crash scenario based on the crash type, pre-crash maneuver, and pre-crash events. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety ESC availability database was matched to each NASS/CDS case vehicle by the vehicle make, model, and model year. ESC effectiveness was computed using the quasi-induced exposure method.
From 2006-2015, control loss was a factor in 29.7% of the 1,339,407 vehicle rollovers. ESC was standard equipment in 177,644 of vehicles involved in these events. Our study estimated that ESC was effective in reducing the overall number of rollover crashes by 13.3%. ESC was more effective at reducing rollover crashes due to control loss with a reduction of 50.6%. ESC is particularly effective for high center of gravity vehicles such as light trucks, SUVs, and vans. Travelling too fast for the road conditions was the most common reason rollovers due to control loss were not prevented despite the presence of ESC.
Recommended Content
Technical Paper | Discerning the State of Crashworthiness in the Accident Experience |
Technical Paper | Crash Simulations to Understand Injury Mechanisms in Maneuver Induced Rollover Crashes |
Technical Paper | Evaluation of Air Bag Field Performance |
Authors
Topic
Citation
Riexinger, L., Sherony, R., and Gabler, H., "Has Electronic Stability Control Reduced Rollover Crashes?," SAE Technical Paper 2019-01-1022, 2019, https://doi.org/10.4271/2019-01-1022.Data Sets - Support Documents
Title | Description | Download |
---|---|---|
Unnamed Dataset 1 | ||
Unnamed Dataset 2 | ||
Unnamed Dataset 3 | ||
Unnamed Dataset 4 | ||
Unnamed Dataset 5 | ||
Unnamed Dataset 6 | ||
Unnamed Dataset 7 | ||
Unnamed Dataset 8 |
Also In
References
- NHTSA 2015
- NHTSA 2007
- Lie , A. , Tingvall , C. , Krafft , M. , and Kullgren , A. The Effectiveness of Electronic Stability Control (ESC) in Reducing Real Life Crashes and Injuries Traffic Injury Prevention 7 1 38 43 2006
- Farmer , C.M. Effect of Electronic Stability Control on Automobile Crash Risk Traffic Injury Prevention 5 4 317 325 2004
- Erke , A. Effects of Electronic Stability Control (ESC) on Accidents: A Review of Empirical Evidence Accident Analysis & Prevention 40 1 167 173 2008
- Dang , J.N. 2004
- Papelis , Y.E. , Watson , G.S. , and Brown , T.L. An Empirical Study of the Effectiveness of Electronic Stability Control System in Reducing Loss of Vehicle Control Accident Analysis & Prevention 42 3 929 934 2010
- Kusano , K.D. and Gabler , H.C. Comprehensive Target Populations for Current Active Safety Systems Using National Crash Databases Traffic Injury Prevention 15 7 753 761 2014
- NHTSA Vehicle API 2018 https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/api/
- Cuthbert , J. An Extension of the Induced Exposure Method of Estimating Driver Risk Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society) 177 190 1994
- HLDI Predicted Availability of Safety Features on Registered Vehicles-An Update HLDI Bulletin 31 15 2014