Injury mitigation in the collision partners of pre-collision system equipped vehicles in rear-end collisions

IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1846-1851

  Kusano, Kristofer D ^a   Gabler, Hampton C ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAKING SYSTEM; CRASH SEVERITY; INJURY MITIGATION; REAR-END COLLISIONS; SAFETY BENEFITS;

BRAKES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; VEHICLES;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 83755229174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082848     Document Type: Conference Paper

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