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Volkswagen's Passive Seat Belt/Knee Bolster Restraint, VWRA-A Preliminary Field Performance Evaluation-Progress Report
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This paper describes results of the field accident performance of the VW Passive Restraint System (VWRA) installed in Rabbit vehicles operating on U.S. highways. The historical development of the VWRA as an outgrowth of VW's research and development programs is detailed for perspective. To act as a baseline, dynamic sled and full-scale barrier crash testing with instrumented surrogates using the VWRA are presented. The primary portion of the paper deals with collected and calculated data from VW's field investigations which have been in progress over the last two years. Parameters measured and presented are vehicle repair costs, VDI (Ref. 1), EBV (equivalent barrier velocity), OIS/AIS (Ref. 2), occupant contact points, and some collision data involving NHTSA-supplied crash recorders. Specific areas of interest are explored such as, frequency/severity of injury to knee-femur-complex, the head and the thorax.
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Miller, S., Seiffert, U., and States, J., "Volkswagen's Passive Seat Belt/Knee Bolster Restraint, VWRA-A Preliminary Field Performance Evaluation-Progress Report," SAE Technical Paper 780436, 1978, https://doi.org/10.4271/780436.Also In
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- Collision Deformation Classification - SAE J224a
- The Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) 1976 American Medical Association Society of Automotive Engineers American Association for for Automotive Medicine
- States J. D. Miller S. R. Seiffert U. W. “Volkswagen's Passive Seat Belt / Knee Bolster Restraint VW RA: A Preliminary Field Evaluation SAE: 770935 861 910 1977 Stapp Car Crash Conference Proceedings Society of Automotive Engineers Warrendale, Pa.