Cross-correlation between the controlled collision environment and real-world motor vehicle collisions: Evaluating the protection of the thoracic side airbag.

CONCLUSION: The data from the controlled collision environment indicated an unequivocal benefit provided by the thoracic side airbag for the crash dummy however the real-world collisions demonstrate no benefit is provided to the occupant. This has resulted from a non-correlation between the crash test/dummy based design taking the abstracting process too far as to represent the real-world collision scenario. PMID: 29360404 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research