Presentation on NHTSA evaluations of the Flexible Pedestrian Lower Legform Impactor (Flex-PLI) as compared against the TRL impactor.

Presentation by NHTSA’s Nha Nguyen on agency strategies for enhancing motorcoach safety: Seat Belts, Stability Control Systems, Rollover Structural Integrity, Emergency Evacuation, Fire Safety, Glazing and Window Retention, Event Data Recorders (EDRs), Tires and Crash Avoidance Systems.

July 2011 notice of the US EPA and NHTSA joint final rule establishing new requirements for the fuel economy and environment label posted on the window sticker of all new automobiles sold in the U.S., corresponding with the US request to list this rule in the Compendium of Candidate GTR.

September 2011 notice of final NHTSA fuel consumption standards and final EPA carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions standards for Combination Tractors; Heavy-duty Pickup Trucks and Vans; and Vocational Vehicles, corresponding with the request to list these regulations in the Compendium of Candidate GTR.

Presentation on NHTSA’s proposal to enhance the FMVSS 210 test procedure for seat-belt anchorages through the use of an improved pair of “force-application devices” (FAD).

Presentation by NHTSA’s Office of the Chief (Legal) Counsel explaining the requirements of the US rulemaking process, especially in relation to the prospects for transposing a GTR into an FMVSS.

NHTSA Office of Applied Vehicle Safety Research-Crashworthiness Division presentation on research into Li-ion battery safety issues and remedies.

NHTSA presentation on the development post-mortem human subject injury risk curves for use in developing injury assessment reference values for evaluating head restraint effectiveness in rear impacts.

Presentation on the results of testing to compare the responses of the BioRID II with those of the Hybrid III when subjected to FMVSS 202a and Modified Annex 9 rear impact pulses using OEM vehicle seats.

Expanded preliminary findings on post-mortem human subject injury risk curves and potential injury assessment reference values for rear-impact protection testing.

Comparison of FMVSS 202a, GTR 7 (Annex 1) and Netherlands-proposed height measurement procedure (per the December 2011 presentation).

US testing of the 50th male and 5th female side-impact anthropomorphic test devices.

Presentation on comparative testing of ES2-re and WorldSID dummies.

Static Oblique Loading of the WorldSID 5th percentile female dummy: Comparison of 2D IRTRACC to Chestband Displacements

Presentation on pole crash tests conducted under FMVSS 214 using the WorldSID 50th percentile male dummy.

Presentation on the effort to develop an open source specification for an onboard data acquisition system for the WorldSID 50th percentile dummy suitable for inclusion into CFR 49, part 572 (i.e., US regulatory system).

NHTSA WorldSID 50th Pole Side Impact Tests.

Presentation on NHTSA research to date.

Two-slide introduction to the parallel electric vehicle informal group working on safety standards.

Agenda for the 9th session of the informal group for side-impact dummy harmonization.

Overview of NHTSA electric vehicle safety research, including cooperation with SAE, toward the establishment of test procedures to evaluate the safety performance of rechargeable energy storage systems and other electrical vehicle components and systems.

Draft agenda for the third meeting (including the ad hoc session held to launch the group, so this meeting is technically EWG-02) of the Enforcement Working Group.

Presentation on NHTSA’s development of a test tool for assessing forward impact mitigation and collision avoidance systems.

Pedestrian Injuries By Source: Serious and Disabling Injuries in US and European Cases, Annals of Advances in Automotive Medicine paper by Ann Mallory (Transportation Research Center Inc.), Rikard Fredriksson and Erik Rosén (Autoliv Research), and Bruce Donnelly (NHTSA).

Information on vehicle data used in NHTSA FlexPLI and EEVC pedestrian impactor studies.