OCCUPANT INJURY RISK FROM DEPLOYING SIDE AIRBAGS

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OCCUPANT INJURY RISK FROM DEPLOYING SIDE AIRBAGS
RECOMMENDED PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATION
One Year Followup Meeting Washington, DC ?
October 25, 2001
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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

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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

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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

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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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