Vehicle Safety: Opportunities Exist to Enhance NHTSA's New Carassessment ProgramDIANE Publishing, 2005 - 115 pages In 2003, 42,643 people were killed & more than 2.8 million people were injured in motor vehicle crashes. Efforts to reduce fatalities on the Nation's roadways include the Nat. Highway Trans. Safety Admin.'s (NHTSA) New Car Assessment Program (NCAP). Under this program, NHTSA conducts vehicle crash & rollover tests to encourage manufacturers to make safety improvements to new vehicles & provide the public with information on the relative safety of vehicles. This report examines: how NHTSA's NCAP crash tests vehicles, rates their safety, & reports the results to the public; how NHTSA's program compares to other programs that crash test vehicles & report results to the public; & the impact of the program & opportun. to enhance its effectiveness. |
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Page 3 - NCAP data were sufficiently reliable for the purposes of this report. In addition...
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Page 63 - ... Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine and Applied Research Associates. We visited and interviewed automobile manufacturers in the United States, including General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Daimler-Chrysler, and American Honda Motor Company. We interviewed trade associations including the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers. We interviewed consumer advocacy groups, including Consumers Union, Public Citizen, the AAA...
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Page 6 - ... and braking capabilities — attest to the importance of driver and use patterns, which largely determine crash involvement. Once in a crash, however, vehicle characteristics that contribute to crashworthiness, such as size and weight, how the vehicle absorbs energy, and restraint system attributes, play a large role in determining the likelihood and extent of occupant injury. Because of the close coupling of vehicle characteristics and vehicle crashworthiness, the motor vehicle safety research...
Page 1 - Administration estimate of the cost of motor vehicle crashes in 1994 — including productivity losses, property damage, medical costs, rehabilitation costs, travel delay, legal and court costs, emergency service costs, insurance administration costs, premature funeral costs and costs to employers — put the figure at a staggering $150.5 billion.
Page 1 - ... million miles of travel 1Economic costs include productivity losses, property damage, medical costs, rehabilitation costs, travel delay, legal and court costs, emergency services, insurance administration costs, and the costs to employers. For more information, see US Department of Transportataion National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, The Economic Impact of Motor Vehicle Crashes, 2000 (Washington, DC: May 2002).