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    pressure, national lobbying and a hearing held in July by the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation to discuss the National Safety Act, representatives and senators began to support revisions to remove the connection between federal highway construction funding and the state helmet laws. (Knudson & Bayer) On May 5, 1976 President Ford signed a bill making those revisions a reality. (Bayer) In this aspect, the motorcyclists were in a way, following the advice of Thoreau in Civil Disobedience

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    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), USA estimates more than 28,000 people survived vehicle crashes and are still alive due to the presence of frontal airbags in their vehicles as of 1 January 2009. This data has been accrued over time from crashes and fatalities on America’s highways and side streets. This paper will examine these statistics and compare information with this data. Air bags for drivers made first appearances in certain 1985 models. From 1987-1990, automatic

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    Contributions with the field of biomechanics along with advancements in technology have led to improvements in the general and public safety pertaining to motor vehicles. Air bags have reduced mortality rates in motor vehicle accidents significantly throughout the years. Air bags have undergone development for many years, first being introduced in the 1960’s with the release of the first commercial air bag in the 1980’s appearing in motor vehicles. Air bags have been a subject of research and tests

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    Introduction Due to various technologies, such as, graphics processing unit (GPU), machine learning, and deep learning rapid development, artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to be applied in a wide range of different fields. Powerful GPU has provided abilities to process significant amount of data and deep learning has enabled numerous feasible applications of machine learning, such as, fighting web spam, automatic translate, and assistive robots (The Official NVIDIA Blog, 2017). These advances

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    The Project Background Vehicle safety is of upmost importance for automotive manufactures as having an unsafe vehicle can mean the company will not be able to sell its new vehicle to the public. Each country has their own legislation of vehicle safety which manufacture has to abide by and produce documentation to prove that the vehicle is safe, in order to sell its vehicle in that particular country. Independent testing organisations, such as Euro NCAP, perform a number of safety tests on new vehicles

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    Distracted driving has been the most recent cause of accidents on the road presently. Of course there are many other reasons why drivers get into accidents, but it is mainly because they get distracted. Police in El Cerrito, California even gave more than 600 citations in April to drivers for distracted driving violations (“El Cerrito”).Also,“nearly 6,000 people were killed and a half-million injured last year in the U.S. due to drivers being distracted”(“Distracted”).Distracted driving today causes

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    On April 1st, 2014 in Washington D.C., General Motors (GM) Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra testified in front of a panel of senators regarding the company’s late delay in addressing a defect in ignition switches, causing cars to lose power and injuring or killing the drivers. While GM has issued a recall on cars that are known to have this defective product, the problem lies in the delay of action on the part of GM, who are accused of knowing about the defect as early as 2001. One of the many

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    As teenagers are leaving their homes, cities, and in many cases, states, to attend colleges, driving has become an integral part in a teen’s life. However, many states are putting heavy restrictions on teen drivers to keep not only them safe, but the rest of the community as well. But that has not been enough- teen drivers still are a major problem on the road due partly to their lack of mental development. This has pushed some states to consider raising minimum driving age, eliminating the whole

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    able to sense its full environment and navigation without human interference to drive safely to its destination. As you read news about an old man, named Joshua Brown who died behind the wheel of a Tesla’s autonomous car in Autopilot mode on the highway in Florida. He watched Harry Potter video while he was using autopilot mode; suddenly, a truck was coming nearby, but the autonomous braking system didn’t apply simultaneously because the data recognized it was a sky. This accident influenced a lot

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    of tests is made eccentric than the symmetry axis. These tests can be made with special barrier or a car. If the test is made with other car, this test is named car to car frontal offset test. This test is generally made by Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), EuroNCAP and Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP). An example of frontal offset impact test can be seen from Figure 1.2 and 1.3. Figure 1.2 Frontal offset (overlap) crash test

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