Small Car Driver Inflatable Restraint System Evaluation. Volume III: Investigation of Potential Crash Survivability of a Current Production Subcompact Vehicle Equipped with an Advanced Driver Restraint System

摘要

A Chevette body buck modified to accept the Minicars RSV advanced driver restraint system was used in a series of sled tests to establish the potential benefits which could be derived from installing the advanced RSV system in a current production subcompact vehicle. Tests conducted earlier using the existing Chevette driver station geometry and a modified version of the General Motors Air Cushion Restraint System (ACRS) established 30-mph BEV frontal impact protection. Results from this latest series of sled tests indicate that in the absence of problems created by severe upper firewall intrusion, passive driver frontal impact protection can be provided with the Minicars system to 40-mph BEV.