The effect of recent trends in vehicle design on U.S. societal fatality risk per vehicle mile traveled,and their projected future relationship with vehicle mass |
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Authors: | Tom Wenzel |
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Affiliation: | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, 90R2000, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States |
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Abstract: | The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently updated its 2003 and 2010 logistic regression analyses of the effect of a reduction in light-duty vehicle mass on US fatality risk per vehicle mile traveled (VMT). The current NHTSA analysis is the most thorough investigation of this issue to date. LBNL's assessment of the analysis indicates that the estimated effect of mass reduction on risk is smaller than in the previous studies, and statistically non-significant for all but the lightest cars. |
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Keywords: | Fatality risk Logistic regression Vehicle mass Vehicle footprint Side airbags ESC Compatibility |
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