How do car manufacurers minimise injury to pedestrians involved in collisions with vehicles?
This is a question for my science coursework, and to be honest I know the answer but can’t put it into a paragraph.
Here’s the question:
New laws require car designs that minimise injury to pedestrians involved in collision with vehicles. Describe some of the ways in which the car manufacturers are doing this.
August 25th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Vehicle manufacturers minimise the risk of injury to pedestrians by providing good forward visibility for the driver, highly efficient braking systems and by designing the front of the vehicle so as to minimise the risk of injury in the event of an impact.
The main design features are:
1. The forward most projections of the vehicle strike the pedestrian low down so as reduce major injuries while tending to throw the person onto the bonnet (‘hood’ in N America) of the vehicle.
2. The bonnet is designed to crumple, so absorbing a lot of the energy of the impact and increasing the chances of the pedestrian surviving the impact without serious injuries.
3. The front of the vehicle is designed without sharp, hard protruding parts that might cause injury in the case of impact with a pedestrian.
Other design features include ‘running lights’ (lights that are illuminated in the day time) on some makes of vehicle to improve the chance of a pedestrian seeing the vehicle coming;
August 25th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
This site is very informative……………
http://users.tpg.com.au/users/mpaine/ped_veh.html