Citation

Patil MS, Galgali V. Int. J. Veh. Safety 2018; 10(1): 87-96.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Inderscience Publishers)

DOI

10.1504/IJVS.2018.093065

PMID

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Abstract

In a country that continues to hold the record for high road deaths every year, it is important to have reliable safety system in vehicles which is an absolutely crucial pre-requisite for driver safety. The latest tests, conducted by Global NCAP (New Car Assessment Program), showed that in an accident, most budget cars would leave the driver with possible life-threatening injuries. For such cars with insufficient or unreliable safety devices, this paper deals with the design of an impact absorbing steering column, used to achieve controlled deceleration of a restrained/unrestrained occupant to reduce the impact forces and thus reducing the chances of fatal injuries.

Keywords: impact absorbing systems; steering systems; driver safety.

Language: en