A balanced active and passive safety concept for new vehicle generations

Werkmeister, Klaus; Borchers, Nils

For most of the current vehicles on the road – safety has been developed with the predominant focus of offering the best crash protection to occupants possible. With a soon to be introduced vehicle, a new philosophy has been applied. Additional options have increased performance of electronic devices. Concepts have been developed in which safety measures are applied throughout all relevant phases of the vehicle in traffic.

With future vehicles it is BMW`s intention to enhance safety in all relevant phases in a wellbalanced way for drivers, passengers as well as other participants in real world traffic. Examples of relevant phases are: cruising and dynamic driving, critical situations and pre-crash phases, occupant protection in case of an accident and finally the post-crash phase.

Year

Entry

2001

Kanianthra J, Carter A, Preziotti G. Enhancing post-crash vehicle safety through and automatic collison notification system. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). June 4-7, 2001; Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2001

Augenstein J, Digges K, Ogata S, Perdeck E, Stratton J. Development and validation of the urgency algorithm to predict compelling injuries. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV). June 4-7, 2001; Amsterdam, The Netherlands.