A Note on Automobile Cruise Control Faults and Sud
A discussion of the possible failure modes of automobile cruise control systems, with special reference to alleged incidents of sudden uncontrolled acceleration.
Accident Investigation Training
Provides a technical course in forensic collision investigation and accident reconstruction. Includes course content, dates, and fees, plus contact information.
ARC Network
The Accident Reconstruction Communications Network is for the industry of accident reconstruction dedicated to research and communication.
Artificial passenger could make driving safer
Article in New Scientist about an artificial passenger to keep the driver awake.
Autoliv Testing
The testing facilities at Autoliv.
Automotive Product Liability Resource Center
A resource center designed to bring attorneys and experts together to convince Auto makers to produce safer vehicles. Includes general and contact information, a list of attorneys, and forms to add information about accidents.
CAPE
The Center for Advanced Product Evaluation offers barrier crash, vibration, rollover, sled, durability, environmental, and pendulum testing, computer simulation and data analysis. Includes detailed information about each kind of test and how to contact them.
CIREN -- Crash Injury Research and Engineering Net
A multi-center research program involving a collaboration of clinicians and engineers in academia, industry, and government.
Compass Computing
Offer services including locating software of use to the accident investigator and reconstructionist, information on web design, programming and other services available in Kent and London, UK.
CRASH 2000
Software for the accident investigator and reconstructionist. Performs many calculations, plus user defined formulae and contains details of over 11,000 vehicles.
Crashdatainfo
Includes General Motors SIR system component descriptions and definitions, information on how to recover data from an airbag module, and automotive safety links.
CrashTest.Com
Crash-test results and insurance risk data on new and used cars, trucks, vans, and SUVs.
D. Wylie Associates
Provide analyses on driver fatigue, driving safety, and forensic human factors for the purpose of Accident Reconstruction.
Diversified Technical Systems
Provide Data Acquisition Systems for Crash Testing and other applications. Site includes products, technical support information and how to contact them.
E-TECH Testing Service, Inc.
A professional test laboratory offering crash testing services to highway design engineers, safety engineers, maintenance engineers, researchers, and hardware developers. Includes list of services offered and general information about the company.
EME Corporation
Offer ruggedized Data Acquisition Systems for automotive and military crash testing. Site includes products and services offered, general information about the company and related links.
FARS
The Fatality Analysis Reporting System contains data on all vehicle crashes in the United States that occur on a public roadway and involve a fatality in the crash.
FTSS
First Technology Safety Systems,the worlds largest manufacturer of crash test dummies and finite element models of them.
GMH Engineering
Provides data acquisition systems of many sorts, including facial load sensing Hybrid III crash test dummy heads, vehicle crash testing, handling tests, structural force/deflection roll-over tests; forensic engineering, accident investigation, accident reconstruction and expert witnessing.
IIHS ; HLDI
Independent, nonprofit, research and communications organizations funded by auto insurers and dedicated to reducing highway crash deaths, injuries and property losses.
National Crash Analysis Center
A federally funded research center at George Washington University concentrating on vehicle crash research. Includes archives of FEA models, animation results, plus information about the center and graduate degrees.
NCSA
The National Center for Statistics and Analysis is responsible for providing a wide range of analytical and statistical support to NHTSA and the traffic safety community.
NHTSA
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is responsible for reducing deaths, injuries and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes by issuing regulations involving automotive safety, known as Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS).
Notices and Final Rules
NHTSA's Notices of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) and Final Rules.
RoadSafetyResearch.com
Downloadable engineering publications and software by Ezra Hauer on the subject of road safety.
SAE
Society of Automotive Engineers, advancing mobility in Land, Sea, Air and Space.
UMTRI
The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute provides a setting where its research scientists and other university faculty collaborate to accomplish multidisciplinary transportation research.
www.airbagcrash.com
Company offers crash data retrieval via the airbag SDM module for General Motors (GM) vehicles. Site includes component specs, sample data, and contact information.