Impact Sled, full-scale laboratory facility which simulates vehicle accidents, has been in use at General Motors Proving Ground since late 1962; facility and supporting instrumentation, and some of many types of tests that were run in first year of operation are reviewed; tests range from tests of complete vehicles loaded with passenger dummies to tests of single components such as seat belts, seat adjusters, door locks, and windshields; barrier collision and related impact sled tests on buses in intercity service in appendix.


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    Title :

    Crash research for vehicle safety


    Additional title:

    SAE -- Paper


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SAE Meeting ; 1964 Safety factor



    Publication date :

    1964


    Size :

    13 pages


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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