Cars In The Future : Compatibility
Return to Cars In The FutureVehicle to vehicle compatibility will be a larger area to address in the future. The main thrust of vehicle crash testing currently has been to show the cars that meet best practice and there are situations in the real world where the car may not perform as well in protecting the occupant.
In crash testing, the collision partner is known during the design of the vehicle (e.g. an offset barrier). In the real world, collision partners will vary dramatically in width, height of impact, mass, and stiffness.
Compatibility is a way of addressing some of these differences by ensuring that in vehicle-to-vehicle collision, cars can prevent occupant injury from a range of collision partners.
Compatibility is highlighted as an issue here to ensure a holistic overview of the future of passive safety, although it is an issue to be addressed by mainly engineering methods.
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