In recent years, major advances in field data collection and analysis have been achievedthrough the integration of real-world vehicle crash data captured by on-board, electronic, eventdata recorders (EDR's). To date, publicly-available data have been limited to just twomanufacturers, namely General Motors and Ford. Recently, Chrysler has provided a tool bywhich researchers can access EDR's installed in their vehicles. The current study looks at thenew crash data that are now available from Chrysler vehicles and explores the accuracy of thisinformation. The study uses data from a series of staged collisions with EDR-equipped vehiclesand compares data downloaded from these devices to equivalent information captured bylaboratory instrumentation. Full-frontal crash tests, over a range of test speeds, and conductedon a number of different model vehicles, are used in the study.
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