Peters G.A., Peters B.J. Automotive Vehicle Safety

Taylor & Francis, London, 2002, 232 p. — ISBN10: 0415263336, ISBN13: 9780415263337.This unique book is both a practical design guide and a valuable reference book. The information it contains is essential for specialists such as designers, engineers, manufacturers and lawyers, who need to make well-informed decisions in order to ensure automotive safety. The inclusion of discussion topics and worked examples makes the book relevant to students as well as professionals.Automotive Vehicle Safety is an internationally-oriented discussion of how to evaluate products, processes, services and systems. The authors identify key generic safety principles and discuss their applications. Decision-making criteria are also explained, and in-depth information on human simulation, human error control and driver distractions is provided. The book details reconstruction techniques and methods of crash testing, and looks at future vehicle safety and universal design.Introduction to vehicle safety
Basic concepts of vehicle safety
Risk evaluation: is it unsafe?
Human error control
Risk communication
Universal design
The distracted driver
Occupant injury prevention: biokinetics
Human simulation applications
Crash testing
Accident reconstruction
Special design problems
Future vehicle safety