The ISO working group presented the status of their activities to develop injury risk curves for the 50th male and 5th female dummies. In addition to upcoming web meetings, a face-to-face meeting will be held in November 2011 in conjunction with the Stapp Conference.

For the 50th male, all the curves are ready, but the group still needs to assign AIS levels and determine the best measurements to use to predict risk of injury. Additionally, the group is finalizing recommended guidelines to build injury risk curves, which were evaluated using the WorldSID 50th samples. It is expected that ISO will approve the final version of the guidelines and risk curves at their November 2011 meeting. A vehicle manufacturer requested that the WorldSID group agree to preliminary injury risk curves for the 50th to aid those that are testing, by having a standard performance metric. The group did not feel that they had enough information to make these recommendations at this time.

For the WorldSID 5th female, the scaling of test conditions to build the risk curves is the group’s main tasks. Transportation Research Labs (TRL) will conduct work on the effects of the different normalization possibilities, as sponsored by the European Commission. The group needs to find consensus on the scaled test conditions to be used before testing can start. NHTSA plans on conducting some of testing in the second half of 2011. Additionally, TRL will conduct some testing with a borrowed 5th female. Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) also offered to conduct some testing, if they can borrow a dummy. Transport Canada offered their 2 dummies for loan. Once data for all the test conditions are available, the group can begin building the injury risk curves using the guidelines developed for the 50th male.