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SAE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PASSENGER CARS-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 435-443Publisher
SAE INT
DOI: 10.4271/2011-01-0576
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- Toyota Motor Corporation
- Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
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This study presents a method for determining the time to collision (TTC) at which a driver of the striking vehicle in a real-world, lead vehicle stopped (LVS) rear-end collision applied the brakes. The method employs real-world cases that were extracted from the National Automotive Sampling System / Crashworthiness Data System (NASS / CDS) years 2000 to 2009. Selected cases had an Event Data Recorder (EDR) recovered from the striking vehicle that contained precrash vehicle speed and brake application. Of 59 cases with complete EDR records, 12 cases (20%) of drivers appeared not to apply the brakes at all prior to the collision. The method was demonstrated using 47 rear-end cases in which there was driver braking. The average braking deceleration for those cases with sufficient vehicle speed information was found to be 0.52 g's. The average TTC that braking was initiated at was found to vary in the sample population from 1.1 to 1.4 seconds. As more automakers provide commercial tools to retrieve their EDR data, this method can be employed to evaluate TTC in real-world crash situations. This is especially pertinent to the design of crash mitigating components of PCS (i. e. brake assist and automatic braking) that rely on driver reaction in crash imminent situations.
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