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Will Automated Driving Technologies Make Today’s Effective Restraint Systems Obsolete?

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: Autonomous driving will trigger a shift in the epidemiology of road traffic injuries that is raising concerns for public health and requires the design of new strategies for the protection of vehicle occupants. Indeed, today's effective protection systems were developed for crashes caused primarily by human errors, and they may be ineffective or even injurious in the new typology of crashes that will arise with the increasing level of automation in vehicles. There is a need to continuously analyze and forecast vehicles behavior on roads as automated driving technologies spread and get updated, to design effective countermeasures and address ethical and public health challenges.

Source: American Journal of Public Health

DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2017.304009

Authors: Damien Subit, Philippe Vézin, Sébastien Laporte, Baptiste Sandoz

Institutions: Lyon 1 Université, Arts et Métiers, Université de Lyon, Institut de Biomécanique Humaine Georges Charpak, Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux

Language: English

Topic: Traffic and Road Safety

Subfield: Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: green

Funder: European Commission