AbstractAttention is called to evidence that in collisions between vehicles of equal mass, and in single-vehicle collisions, there is unlikely to be a very strong effect of car size on injury severity, and that variation in crashworthiness within the set of car models of a given size has a much larger effect. Consequently, the secondary safety of a national fleet of small cars in the future could be as high as that of a national fleet of large cars today.
Vehicle mass as a determinant of fuel consumption and secondary safety performance: A comment
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment ; 15 , 2 ; 123-125
2009-01-01
3 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Vehicle mass as a determinant of fuel consumption and secondary safety performance: A comment
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