A set of safety-relevant performance qualities were defined for the passenger car as a first step in the development of objective measures of precrash safety performance. Measures were sought that stress the performance produced by a passenger vehicle when it is operated under emergency, crash-avoidance conditions. This goal led to the identification of six limit maneuvers, and associated limit responses, to serve as a first-order means of assessing the safety quality of a motor vehicle. Two of the maneuvers involved control inputs so complex that a driver could not perform them with acceptable fidelity. These maneuvers accordingly were performed using an automatic control system to manipulate the steering, braking, and accelerator controls. The viability and discriminatory power of the proposed test procedures were demonstrated by applying these procedures to four separate vehicles reflecting widely different design philosophies and transport objectives. (Author)


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    Title :

    Vehicle Handling Test Procedures. Volume I


    Contributors:
    H. Dugoff (author) / R. D. Ervin (author) / L. Segel (author)

    Publication date :

    1970


    Size :

    134 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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