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7 Safety
7 Safety
Pages 107-115
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consumption, an important consideration in the development activities related to truck safety of any vehicle technology is to maintain or improve safety • Safety technology, including brakes, roll and electronic for the driver and other motorists. 21CTP has recognized the stability control, and forward collision avoidance techrelationship between vehicle safety and the introduction of nology and cab crashworthiness.
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The FMCSA has supported the development of a webcommunications are also ongoing. based course to train commercial vehicle inspectors on how The FHWA is conducting the Map-21 Truck Size and to detect leaks from natural gas and propane trucks and buses Weight Study, which has a substantial safety component and another web-based course to familiarize commercial and also has very significant implications for specific fuel vehicle inspectors with the safety aspects of electric-drive consumption and emissions by virtue of the increased vehicle commercial vehicles.
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impacts, respectively. Light vehicles hit the truck's axles in 73.9 percent of side Impacts to truck fronts and to the sides of trailers tended to impacts, and overall light vehicles that hit the truck's axles result in override or underride at higher rates than impacts to actually underrode the truck at higher rates than light vehicles the sides of truck cabs or to straight truck cargo bodies.
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When compared to drum brakes, air disc brakes have Crash avoidance initiatives fall into six primary categories: (1) improved braking performance including roll and stabil a number of advantages, including these: ity control systems; (2)
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, roll object detection and collision warning FCW and Mitigation stability control (RSC) , and forward collision avoidance and F-CAM systems are defined as forward-looking radar-based mitigation (F-CAM)
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. In 2008, there were 21CTP Roadmap identifies tire pressure monitoring systems 639 truck drivers killed in 4,352 fatal truck crashes (14.7 (TPMS)
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the commercial uptake for these technologies are for the most part very low. Given that most commercial drivers Committee Comment on Response to 7-1 have no influence on the vehicle purchasing process, includ The Partnership agreed with the Phase 2 committee's ing specifying vehicle safety content, this may tend to slow recommendation that wording of the safety goals should be the adoption of safety protection available to heavy vehicle clarified to emphasize that safety will not be compromised to occupants.
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In terms of Achieving Traffic Safety Goals in the United States: Lessons stopping distance, braking control, brake adjustability, and from Other Nations of highway safety in other nations, and thermal capacity, disc brake systems are superior to drum consider the possibility of establishing more aggressive initia brakes. Disc brakes provide a better foundation than drum tives and goals for highway safety in general.
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2009. Safety Benefits of Stability Control Systems for Avoidance Systems–Potential Benefits.
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