Highway safety appurtenances : successes and failures.

Author(s)
Van Wagoner, W.T.
Year
Abstract

The failure of highway safety systems to perform in the real world as designed and tested under laboratory conditions has limited the effect of such systems in reducing the severity of highway collisions. In some instances, these safety systems have actually increased vehicle damage and occupant injuries. This paper attempts to identify some of the missing design criteria which are leading to the in-service failure of laboratory-proven techniques.

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Publication

Library number
B 22878 (In: B 22851 [electronic version only]) /85/ IRRD 275790
Source

In: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the American Association of the Automotive Medicine (AAAM), San Antonio, Texas, October 3-6, 1983, p. 337-355, 37 ref.

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