vehicle manufacturing designs for aging drivers
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Thomas Broberg Panel 3.ppt, Volvo Cars Safety Centre, Thomas Broberg, tbroberg
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Vehicle manufacturing designs for Aging DriversSafety, Mobility and Aging drivers, Panel III - Highway and Vehicle Design Element
NTSB Public Forum, Washington DC Nov 9th 2010
Thomas BrobergSenior Technical Advisor SafetyVolvo Cars Safety Centre
Thomas Broberg Panel 3.ppt, Volvo Cars Safety Centre, Thomas Broberg, tbroberg
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What we want!
Our vision is to design cars that do not crash.
In the shorter perspective the aim is that by 2020 no-one should be killed or injured in a Volvo.
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Post-crash
Time
Driver unable to avoid
Car still able to control
Driver and car unable to avoid
Reduce severity
Prepare to crash
State of the driverState of the situation
How? – A holistic strategy
Dynamic AvoidancePreventive ImpactMitigation
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How? - A Knowledge Driven Process of Real-Life Safety
Real world data
Safety requirements
Product development
Prototypes
Verification
Production
Circle of Life
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What we know!
Source: Volvo Cars Statistical Database
Source: VTI report 656A, 2009
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…from reality…
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How? Understanding the cause…DREAM – Driver Reliability and Error Analysis Method
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How? – Know the driver…
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How? – Build more knowledge…
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What we do! – With the knowledge we have…
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Emergency Lane AssistCity Safety
Collision Mitigation
Post-crashPreventative
Dynamic Avoidance/Mitigation
Safety CageInflatable Curtain
Whiplash Prevention System
BLIS Driver Alert Alcoguard
IDIS
DSTCRSCFCW
Impact
…The drive for future safety technology.
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Assar Gabrielsson & Gustaf Larson,
the founders of Volvo
“Cars are driven by people.
The guiding principle behind
everything we make at Volvo,
therefore, is – and must
remain – safety”
”Cars are driven by people…”