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原文传递 Evaluation of the Certified-Advanced Air Bags.

题名：	Evaluation of the Certified-Advanced Air Bags.
作者：	Greenwell, N. K.
关键词：	Accident Analysis; Air Bag Restraint Systems; Certification; Crashworthiness; Deployment; Design; Fatality Reduction; Impact Tests; Injuries; Motor Vehicle Accidents; Occupant Protection; Program Eval
摘要：	This report analyzes the changes and redesigns of frontal air bags and their effect on occupant protection in frontal crashes. Specifically, the report addresses the frontal crash mortality rates between vehicles certified to a temporary option in Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 208, Occupant crash protection, allowing unbelted certification through a sled test, and the advanced air bag requirements in FMVSS No. 208. Frontal air bags were designed to protect restrained and unrestrained occupants, but in the early 1990s, they were found to harm occupants positioned too close to the air bag at the time of deployment. By late 1995, it was evident that not only infants, but also unrestrained children and even some adults were injured by frontal air bags. Therefore, NHTSA initiated interim and long-term actions to reduce and eventually eliminate the adverse effect of frontal air bags for infants, children and other high-risk occupants while retaining the benefits of air bags for most people.
报告类型：	科技报告