Pediatric occupant human body model kinematic and kinetic response variation to changes in seating posture in simulated frontal impacts - with and without automatic emergency braking.
CONCLUSIONS: Pre-crash AEB reduces the effect of the impact despite the same collision speed as cases without-AEB. This is primarily due to the limited travel distance of the occupant, thus, starting an earlier ride-down during the crash. Moreover, different initial seating postures lead to a wide range of injury exposures. Vehicle and child restraint design should incorporate these seating postures to ensure robust protection of the occupant in a crash.
PMID: 33095067 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Maheshwari J, Sarfare S, Falciani C, Belwadi A Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research
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