Sentences with phrase «of crash severities»

This is especially important when repeated tests over a range of crash severities are needed to evaluate performance.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently published a study addressing the impact of crash severity on the likelihood that a driver or passenger in a rear - end accident would develop health problems resulting from soft tissue injury.

Not exact matches

March 27: Tesla releases its first blog post, «What We Know About Last Week's Accident,» saying it hasn't been able to retrieve computer logs from Huang's vehicle and blames the damaged highway safety barrier for the severity of the crash.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the electric car company is making major improvements to the Autopilot system used by its vehicles, which will dramatically reduce the number and severity of crashes in which they are involved.

At the time, though, many traders believed that the market was on a long - term climb to prosperity, and even took advantage of new computer technology to facilitate heavier, automated trading — one action that contributed to the cause and severity of the crash itself.

They properly installed the car seats and then conducted 12 rear impact crash tests of moderate the severity with dummies strapped into the car seats, measuring how each crash would affect each body part.

Under the proposal, motorists would have faced a sliding fee scale depending on the severity of a crash.

Wearing a helmet decreases the incidence and severity of traumatic brain injury during crashes.

These crashes, which primarily occur with motor vehicles, increase the velocity of the crash impact and, as a result, the severity of the injury.»

Now, after years of collecting such data, Augenstein is working with the auto industry to create a new generation of cars equipped with «black boxes,» much like those in airplanes, that will automatically convey information about the location and severity of a crash to an emergency dispatcher.

The research team looked at the number of injuries, severity of injury, type of hospital interventions, patient deaths and costs - per - patient in children with gunshot injuries compared with children whose injuries resulted from other mechanisms, including stabbing, being hit by a motor vehicle, struck by blunt object, falls, motor vehicle crashes and others.

Given that, I do think it contributed to the depth and severity of my eventual crash.

If you're approaching a vehicle too quickly, the system will first warn you with a series of beeps and then auto brake to either stop the E250 before rear - ending the other car or mitigate the severity of the crash at least.

The goal of the national CDL program is to reduce the number and severity of commercial motor vehicle crashes in the United States by requiring states to conduct knowledge and skills testing before issuing a CDL, maintain a complete and accurate driver history record for anyone who obtains a CDL, and impose appropriate disqualifications against any driver who violates certain offenses.

Volvo has an answer for that: when the number of low - speed crashes goes dramatically down, the remaining accidents are of greater severity; when you take many cheap rear - endings out of the equation, you're left paying for the rollovers, front - end impacts, and «t - bone» crashes, which are both more dangerous and more expensive.

Safety The Highlander Hybrid has dual - stage front airbags that deploy at either of two intensities depending on crash severity.

The HLDI also reported that the number of these high - severity crashes involving the XC60 were roughly the same as its competitors.

The Plus software can apply braking when the car is travelling as fast as 124 mph if it detects an imminent accident; while that may not avoid a crash entirely, Mercedes hopes the autonomous system will at least reduce the severity of an accident.

In its statement following the death of Walter Huang, a 38 - year - old engineer at Apple after a crash in his Model X on Highway 101 near Mountain View, California, in March of this year, Tesla quickly pointed out that the condition of the highway barrier influenced the crash's severity.

In addition to the location of the car, the 750i will transmit data about the severity of the crash so that emergency response workers can dispatch the appropriate amount of help.

After running the small overlap test on the Taurus, IIHS concluded that a driver may injure the left lower leg in a real - world crash of the same severity.

Measures taken from the head, neck, and chest indicate low risk of injuries to these body regions in a crash of this severity.

Driver — In both tests, measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a crash of this severity.

Measures from the dummy indicate that injuries to the left knee and left lower leg would be possible in a crash of this severity.

Driver — Measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a crash of this severity.

Passenger — In both tests, measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a crash of this severity.

In the Institute's test, measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a crash of this severity.

Measures from the dummy indicate that injuries to the left knee and right lower leg would be possible in a crash of this severity.

ESC is highly effective in helping the driver maintain control of the car, thereby avoiding or reducing the severity of crashes.

IIHS tests evaluate two aspects of safety: crashworthiness — how well a vehicle protects its occupants in a crash — and crash avoidance and mitigation — technology that can prevent a crash or lessen its severity.

Air bags (multi-stage) Regulates the amount of air bag necessary for the front passengers by crash severity.

Measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a crash of this severity, including head injury risk from the head contacting steering wheel rim.

Passenger — Measures from the dummies in the two tests, taken together, indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a crash of this severity.

Driver — In the test of the 2009 model, measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a crash of this severity.

But with good side impact protection, people should be able to survive crashes of this severity without serious injuries.»

Measurements from the dummy showed that significant injuries in a crash of this severity would be unlikely.

The study by IIHS» VP of research, Jessica Cicchino, shows that ``... lane departure warning lowers rates of single - vehicle, sideswipe and head - on crashes of all severities by 11 percent and lowers the rates of injury crashes of the same types by 21 percent.»

It depends on the severity of the crash.

If a vehicle earns a good rating, it means that in a real - world crash of similar severity a driver using a safety belt would be likely to walk away with little or no injury.

Measures taken from the dummy indicated a low risk of injuries in a crash of this severity.

Measures taken from the head, chest, and left leg indicate low risk of injuries to these body regions in a crash of this severity.

There is almost never any reason to replace a child restraint after a crash of minor or even moderate severity.

Driver — Measures taken from the dummy indicate that serious skull fracture and / or brain injuries would be possible in a crash of this severity, as well as rib fractures and / or internal organ injuries.

Driver — Measures taken from the dummies in the two tests indicate that rib fractures would be possible in a crash of this severity.

The Eclipse Cross» crashworthiness hasn't been tested in the United States, but the ratings should be at least as good given the severity of European crash tests.

However, injury measures recorded on the driver dummy indicate the possibility of rib fractures and internal organ injuries in real - world crashes of similar severity.

In a real - world crash of similar severity, a serious skull fracture and brain injuries would be possible.

Measures recorded on the dummy indicated there would be a moderate risk of injuries to the right thigh, lower left leg and left foot in a real - world crash of this severity.

Measures taken from the head, chest, and legs indicate low risk of injuries to these body regions in a crash of this severity.

Measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in the second test in a crash of this severity.