Analysis of Car-to-Bicycle Approach Patterns for Developing Active Safety Devices.

CONCLUSIONS: When considering the TTC in the test protocol of evaluation for safety performance of active safety devices, we propose individual TTCs for evaluation of cyclist and pedestrian detections, respectively. In the test protocols, the following two scenarios should be employed: bicycle emerged from behind unobstructed views and bicycle emerging from behind obstructions.
PMID: 26375916 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - September 16, 2015 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Matsui Y, Oikawa S, Hitosugi M Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research