Highlights of NHTSA's occupant restraint programs to 1979.

Author(s)
Cromack, J.R.
Year
Abstract

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has spent over $75 million on contract research programs related to the development, test, survey, education and promotion of active and passive occupant restraints for motor vehicles. This paper examines various aspects of the NHTSA sponsored restraint system testing programs, including: type of restraint used, type of surrogate, injury severity, out of position occupant tests, test speed, test conducted in accordance with the conditions of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208, compliance/failure etc.

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B 18939 (In: B 18906 [electronic version only]) /91/ IRRD 256334
Source

In: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the American Association for Automotive Medicine AAAM, Rochester, New York, October 7-9, 1980, p. 379-395, 1 fig., 13 tab., 6 ref.

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