Losing weight to save lives: A review of the role of automobile weight and size in traffic fatalities

作者: Marc Ross , Tom Wenzel

DOI: 10.2172/834261

关键词: Mass reductionIn vehicleAutomotive engineeringSAFERCrashEngineeringTransport engineeringAutomotive industryFuel efficiencyLight dutyMotor vehicle crash

摘要: … we estimate that weight reduction without size reduction would lead to an increase of, at most, half of that estimated by … in the historical correlation between vehicle weight and size. This …

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