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DESIGN FACTORS IN AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY
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TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR statistics, detailed in this paper, show declining accident and fatality rates despite radical increase in vehicle registrations and annual vehicle miles.
The author shows how the passenger-car industry has built safety into vehicles to the point where-as an example-only 14% of accidents on the Pennsylvania Turnpike over its 13-year history were attributed to vehicle failures.
Paralleling these efforts and the increasing emphasis on safer highways, better traffic management and driver education, are extensive studies aimed at bypassing the human factor and increasing human safety in automotive vehicles. Among those described here are crash investigations, laboratory tests of safety devices, and establishment through various other means of design criteria for human impact tolerance.
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Haynes, A., "DESIGN FACTORS IN AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY," SAE Technical Paper 560057, 1956, https://doi.org/10.4271/560057.Also In
References
- See “Accident Facts.” Published by National Safety Council, Inc.
- See “Highway Statistics.” Published by U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Public Roads, Washington.
- See “Automobile Facts and Figures.” Published by Automobile Manufacturers Association, Detroit.
- See “Accident Causation.” Published by Pennsylvania Turnpike Joint Safety Research Group.
- See “Brief Passenger-Car Data.” Published by Ethyl Corp.
- See “Automobile Barrier Impacts,” by Severy D. M. and Mathewson. J. H. Highway Research Bulletin No. 91, published by National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Washington.
- See “Human Tolerance to Dynamic Forces,” by Stapp. Lt.-Col. J. P. Published by Aero Medical Field Laboratory, Holloman Air Development Center.