Renault's ambition is to achieve a vehicle design meeting requirements that: (i) go well beyond the requirements of the regulations at present proposed or in effect in Europe; and (ii) are compatible with both actual road conditions and industrial realities. The research model is the Renault 19, modified to obtain safety conditions by a new conventional procedure involving the following two aspects: (1) for those of the body in white components which are subjected to the greatest stresses in an impact, improvement of both component performance and of the strength of component connections; and (2) fitting out the passenger-compartment walls in accordance with the occupant's characteristics. Due to the lack of a suitable dummy for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) biofidelity criteria, the evaluation is performed using the EUROSID 1 dummy. (A)
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