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Citation

Mackay GM. J. Traffic Med. 1977; 5(1): 16-18.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1977, International Association for Accident and Traffic Medicine)

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Abstract

For the future in Europe there are two sets of priorities. In the legislative area, there is a need to examine retrospectively existing standards and to correct deficiencies which are detected, and a need to examine prospectively proposed standards to establish their likely effectiveness in advance and resolve conflicts with other requirements. Lead times for the introduction of future standards will have to be longer than has been the case in the past, if future requirements are to do more than merely regularise existing designs. The second set of priorities is in the research area. Here there are conflicts to be resolved in specifying the appropriate test conditions; what speeds, what types of barriers, compatibility between cars of different masses in various crash configurations and between cars and pedestrians. The second, more pressing area of research, is to develop better dummy technology and specifically to improve our knowledge of injury criteria, and how these criteria vary throughout the actual population at risk. Only with that knowledge can realistic performance standards be developed.

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