In 1968, the first reported appellate court decision was issued stating that vehicle manufacturers must design vehicles to provide protection to motorists in crashes. See Larson v. General Motors.

This shift to new fuels and energy storage systems brings the necessity to review and, in some cases, update current crashworthiness requirements and test protocols to ensure safe operation and reduce ...

In my two previous columns, I discussed the lower and intermediate levels of the building block approach for crashworthiness testing and analysis of composite structures. I focused on the commercial ...

The Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS) is an independent organization that tests vehicles for crashworthiness and crash avoidance technology. Founded in 1959, the IIHS has issued crash ...

These characteristics made the multi-layered BCPS more advantageous in crashworthiness than traditional structures. It was also found that the crushing performance of the multi-layered BCPS was very ...

A Tata Nexon involved in a serious head-on collision in Hodal,Haryana demonstrates its safety credentials as occupants emerge ...

The crashworthiness of aircraft structures is a critical aspect of aerospace design, directly influencing occupant survivability and overall safety performance during impact events. This field ...

Now is the time for buses. European regulations for crashworthiness standards primarily rely on the safety provisions developed within the frameworks of the United Nations’ World Forum for ...

Lucid is trying to mirror Tesla’s success in the EV market, and its first product, the Air luxury sedan, is already considered better than Tesla Model S in many ways. But one thing customers ...

"As we fixed one problem, we had another come up," said Ethan Peterson who works as a pavement markings and crashworthiness engineer at MnDOT. Peterson said the hard-to-see markings came from ...

In my November 2024 column, I began discussing the building block approach for crashworthiness testing of composite structures. This approach features a multistep process for designing composite ...