Abstract
After many years of work, the international authorities of Geneva succeeded in finalizing a draft Regulation aimed to ensure the protection offered to the vehicle occupants during a side impact. During the development of the dynamic test, the European manufacturers of cars tried to define a quasi-statics test likely to provide an alternative to the dynamic test. The draft Regulation arriving in its final phase, it appeared necessary to check the equivalence of both procedures. The object of this publication is to clarify the test programme installed in order to evaluate the two testing methods, and to present the principal results. (A)