DESIGN FACTORS IN AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY

560057

01/01/1956

Event
Pre-1964 SAE Technical Papers
Authors Abstract
Content
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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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/560057
Pages
11
Citation
Haynes, A., "DESIGN FACTORS IN AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY," SAE Technical Paper 560057, 1956, https://doi.org/10.4271/560057.
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Published
Jan 1, 1956
Product Code
560057
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English