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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Pre-Crash"”.
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Radar-based Environment Perception for Pre-Crash Safety Systems
… from the vehicle safety point of view are presented. The proposed methods comprise advanced topics of radar-based target detection and tracking in dynamic pre-crash scenarios, as well as ghost object identification. The problem of a wandering dominant scatter point on the target surface and …
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Increasing Computational Efficiency of Pre-Crash Simulations Using Detailed and Simplified Occupant Models
… in a collision from the typical 150-200 msec crash event to 1000 or more msec. Human body models (HBMs) provide researchers with information on how a human occupant could interact with safety systems as well as the risks associated with these interactions. Detailed HBMs can provide restraint …
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Context Aware Pre-Crash System for Vehicular ad hoc Networks Using Dynamic Bayesian Model
… the contributory factors necessary to predict the likelihood of a crash with different levels of severity. Designing an accurate and effective pre-crash system to avoid front and back crashes or mitigate their severity is the most important goal of intelligent transportation systems, as …
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Computational Investigation of Factors Influencing Vehicle Passengers' Safety Performance in Automated Driving Systems (ADS)
… become increasingly critical. This dissertation presents computational investigations into key factors influencing passenger safety, with a focus on pre-crash maneuvers, and rear seat safety in mid-sized male occupants. \\ \\Initially, the influence of pre-crash maneuvers, such as braking and …
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Occupant Responses of Relaxed and Braced 5th Percentile Female and 50th Percentile Male Volunteers during Low-Speed Frontal and Frontal-Oblique Sled Tests
The increased prevalence of crash avoidance technologies like autonomous emergency braking necessitates understanding of occupant responses during low-speed frontal pre-crash braking and low-severity crash events. Active human body models (HBMs) have emerged as valuable tools to evaluate occupant …
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Real Time Driver Safety System
… Corporation announced that it has given its pre-crash safety system the ability to determine whether a driver’s eyes are properly open with an eye monitor. This paper is focusing on finding a driver’s drowsy eyes by using face detection technology. The human face is a dynamic object and has a …
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AV Sensor Architectures for V2V Crash Reconstruction and Prediction
The major challenge in Autonomous Vehicle (AV) crash reconstruction and prediction is the need for appropriate AV sensor data to accurately reconstruct a range of crash events and predict potential crashes across diverse driving scenarios. This thesis aims to develop methods for collecting such …
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AI-driven smart cities: Digital twin simulation, V2X communication, and EV infrastructure optimization
… smart city mobility solutions. The research presents a comprehensive framework leveraging real-time data analytics, machine learning, and simulation technologies to enhance urban transportation systems. The first component focuses on Digital Twin-driven traffic simulation, which enables …
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Modeling Driver Behavior and I-ADAS in Intersection Traversals
… Advance Driver Assist Systems (I-ADAS) may prevent 25 to 93% of intersection crashes. The effectiveness of I-ADAS will be limited by driver's pre-crash behavior and other environmental factors. This study will characterize real-world intersection traversals to evaluate the effectiveness of …
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Identifikation menschlicher Einflüsse auf Verkehrsunfälle als Grundlage zur Beurteilung von Fahrerassistenzsystem-Potentialen
… umfassend (in depth) untersucht. Zur Analyse der Pre-Crash-Phase der Unfälle wurden die Ergebnisse einer psychologischen Befragung mit Angaben aus der polizeilichen Verkehrsunfallanzeige, Informationen zur Unfallstelle, medizinischen Berichten sowie Informationen aus der technischen Rekonstruktion …
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Testing the Long-Term Profitability of the Short-Term Reversal Strategy
… 2008 (the day the Dow Jones Industrial Average crashed by 777.68 points), 29 September 2008 to 31 December 2017 and 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2017. Of the 1000 portfolios tested in each time interval, at least 416 had positive average returns in every time interval. Of the portfolios that …
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Order Behavior In High Frequency Markets
… the impact that fleeting orders have on spread and depth measures of market quality, and how fleeting orders differ from static orders. Attention is also given to the extent that total depth can be decomposed into the two components of fleeting and static depth. The results suggest that …
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Adult pedestrian traffic trauma in Cape Town with special reference to the role of alcohol
… the epidemiology, alcohol-relatedness, clinical presentation and prevention of adult pedestrian collisions in the metropole. Data were collected prospectively on all injured pedestrians who presented consecutively, within six hours of being injured, to the Trauma Unit of Groote Schuur Hospital …
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Data-Driven Inclusive Framework for Safety Assessment of Connected and Autonomous Vehicular Traffic
… areas. Despite these control strategies, crashes between various road users within intersections have historically represented a large portion of overall roadway crashes. Crashes between road users in other safety-critical areas within the roadway infrastructure such as high-speed freeways …
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The image of the American businessman in the popular press, 1928-1941
… the study examined the image of businessmen as presented in the periodical press.Businessmen are an integral part of American society; however, historical writing has tended to favor political and military exploits. The businessman's ability to influence societal decisions and his role as a …
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Pedal Misapplication: Past, Present, and Future
… is an error in which a driver unintentionally presses the wrong pedal. When drivers mistake the accelerator pedal for the brake pedal, the vehicle experiences a sudden unintended acceleration, and the consequences can be severe. A brief history of PM is covered, and several novel studies of PM …
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Characterizing Bicyclists Behavior in Overtaking Scenarios Over Different Road Infrastructures
Fatal vehicle-bicycle crashes have increased in the United States while cyclist crashes often go unreported. The underreporting of all cyclist crashes results in the overall pre-crash behavior of the cyclists being unknown. What is known is that the most fatal bicycle crash scenario occurs when a …
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Urban Expressway Safety and Efficiency Evaluation and Improvement using Big Data
… of traffic congestion, safety is studied through crash analysis. Extensive works have been conducted to identify the contributing factors and remedies of traffic congestion and crashes. These studies lead to gathering consensus that operation and safety have played as two sides of a coin, …