Abstract
Keywords: Crashworthiness; Far-side Crashes; Side Impact Dummies; Side Impact Simulation; Side Impact Data
A technical team from Australia, Europe and the United States has been assembled to plan and conduct the research needed to provide a technology base for far-side crash protection. To date the findings are as follows: (1) in the USA and Australia there are large opportunities for far-side injury reduction, especially if safety features could mitigate injuries in both far-side planar impacts and far-side rollovers, (2) the IIHS test barrier offers considerable promise as a suitable test device to induce the damage that is representative of farside crashes that produce injury, but the test speed should be higher for far-side crashes than for near-side crashes, (3) a modified MADYMO human facet model was validated for use in evaluating far-side countermeasures, (4) either the THOR-NT or the WorldSID dummy would be a satisfactory test device for assessing far-side protection, but would require minor modifications such as changing in the location of the chest instrumentation and (5) injury criteria and risk functions for use with WorldSID in far-side crashes have been documented.