Pop-up car bonnets can reduce pedestrian deaths
Head trauma on bumpers and bonnets is responsible for 80% of serious
injuries in road vehicle crashes, making the provision of a soft impact
area for the head the next safety design that ought to be fitted to
cars, say Crandall and colleagues (p 1145). Tests for assessing the
pedestrian injury potential of vehicles fitted with pop-up bonnets,
windscreen airbags, and energy absorbing bumpers are now under way, and
a voluntary agreement proposed by European automotive manufacturers
stipulates that all new car types introduced after 2010 should comply
with these design initiatives.
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