Real world crash evaluation of vehicle stability control (VSC) technology.

Author(s)
Bahouth, G.
Year
Abstract

This study quantifies the effect of Vehicle Stability Control (VSC) in reducing crash involvement rates for a subset of vehicles in the US fleet. Crash rates for a variety of impact types before and after VSC technology was implemented are compared. Police-reported crashes from six available US state files from 1998-2002 were analyzed including 13,987 crash-involved study vehicles not equipped with the technology and 5,671 crashes of vehicles equipped with VSC as a standard feature. Overall, an 11.2% (95% CI: 2.4%, 21.1%) reduction in multi-vehicle frontal crash involvement was identified for VSC-equipped vehicles. A 52.6% (95% CI: 42.5%, 62.7%) reduction in single-vehicle crash rates was found. (Author/publisher)

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20051611 b ST (In: ST 20051611 S) /91 / ITRD E839520
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In: Proceedings of the 49th Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine AAAM, Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts, September 12-14, 2005, p. 19-34, 8 ref.

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