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OCCUPANT INJURY RISK FROM DEPLOYING SIDE AIRBAGS RECOMMENDED PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATION

Automotive Occupant Restraints Council. TWG. OCCUPANT INJURY RISK FROM DEPLOYING SIDE AIRBAGS RECOMMENDED PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATION. One Year Followup Meeting Washington, DC  October 25, 2001. Side Airbag OOP Injury Technical Working Group. AAM, AIAM, AORC, and IIHS – Sponsors

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OCCUPANT INJURY RISK FROM DEPLOYING SIDE AIRBAGS RECOMMENDED PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATION

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  1. Automotive Occupant Restraints Council TWG OCCUPANT INJURY RISK FROM DEPLOYING SIDE AIRBAGS RECOMMENDED PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATION One Year Followup Meeting Washington, DC October 25, 2001

  2. Side Airbag OOP Injury Technical Working Group • AAM, AIAM, AORC, and IIHS – Sponsors • Membership includes technical experts from car companies, airbag suppliers, Transport Canada, IIHS, and NHTSA (as observers) • Specify dummies, injuries, and test procedures

  3. Limitation – Risk Cannot be Made Zero • Airbags introduce energy into the crash • There is always some likelihood of injury, given an airbag deployment • Even in the presence of suppression systems, suppression may not occur • Adopted goal – limit risk in the case of deployment AND out-of-position – to 5 percent

  4. Side Airbag OOP Injury Technical Working GroupSummary • Confident that • The number of dummies • The number of tests • The number of injury measures Assure that risk of OOP injury is minimal • BUT, Agreed that experience with new procedures would be reviewed after one year

  5. Organization of this Meeting • Review latest real-world experience • Review test experience of Transport Canada and NHTSA • Review experience and progress of automakers and their suppliers in developing side airbag systems using these out-of-position injury risk assessment procedures • Meeting should be interactive, with questions from the floor • The intent is to discuss where we are today • Tomorrow our technical working group will debate whether additional action is required at this time

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