8/23/2015

Correlation of IIHS Moderate Overlap Offset Rating with 2011-Present NHTSA Injury Risk Score, Over Time

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Note: I am not affiliated with the NHTSA or IIHS, or am even an engineer. I am a 22 year old with Asperger's Syndrome who is very inter...
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Why the calculated NHTSA injury risk for an IIHS crash test is not the end all be all

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I have looked at 531 IIHS moderate overlap frontal offset tests, and put the injury data into a calculator that puts out the risk of AIS 3+...
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8/22/2015

Trends in HIC, Chest G and injury risk, NHTSA crash tests, 1979-2010

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The top chart shows average HIC for each model year of NHTSA crash testing between 1979 and 2010. The improvement is crystal clear, but t...
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NHTSA Testing 1979-2010: Cars vs. Trucks, Vans, and SUVs

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This is a chart of average HIC (head injury criterion) for cars and LTVs (a category encompassing pickup trucks, vans, and SUVs) for each...

The First Airbag

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Testing for the first ever airbag system to be put in a production vehicle. In the early 1990s, we were bombarded with ads touting ...
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NHTSA Trends, 1979-2010

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The next series of posts on CSD will focus on trends in the NHTSA crash test series between 1979-2010. There are currently 1,168 frontal cr...
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8/21/2015

Bus vs. Wall - Parts 1 and 2

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On December 14, 2007, NHTSA took a city bus - a 2000 MCI 54 passenger motorcoach - and slammed it into a wall at 30 mph. There were 13 rows...
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