Sensor development for occupant rollover protection

Delphi Automotive Systems pursues new devices for the peculiarities of rollover conditions.

The architecture of future automotive safety systems continues to be influenced by the expanded use of electronics, as many traditional safety technologies become integrated. Looking at the vehicle as a personal safety system, five driving states can be identified: normal, warning, collision-avoidable, collision-unavoidable, and post-collision. The first two focus on accident avoidance, the last two focus on injury mitigation, and the collision-avoidable state is an overlap of both.

An integrated safety system (ISS) can be considered a series of interdependent safety states. All safety actions occurring in the avoidance states help reduce the probability of a collision, which is known in the industry as active safety.