Suggestion for Making Rapid Advances in Automotive Safety in China

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8484.2010.01.001

Abstract

Abstract: In order to make rapid advances in automotive safety in China, it is critical that safety engineers designing future vehicles in China should take bold and radical action to skip over the many steps undertaken by previous designers in the process of coming up with a modern and safe vehicle. The current trend of working towards meeting safety standards and relying on anthropomorphic test devices (ATD’s), such as the Hybrid III dummy, as the only guide will inevitably lead to a slow path of progress towards a safer vehicle followed by designers in Europe and the US in the past. This process can be accelerated considerably if the ATD is replaced by a computer model of the human and all designs are based on computer simulations. This will result in a much faster design cycle and a vehicle that is truly safe for the human occupant. Safety standards can still be met through a final crash test involving ATD’s.

Key words: automotive safety, dummy testing, computer modeling, shorter design cycle

Albert I. KING. Suggestion for Making Rapid Advances in Automotive Safety in China[J]. Journal of Automotive Safety and Energy, 2010, 1(1): 1-5.

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