"Side impacts, compared to frontal impacts, are much more challenging," said Sean Ryan, a supervisor of safety systems at Ford Motor Company.
Opposite-side impacts carried no additional risk compared to frontal crashes (Table 3).
front crash and for side impacts.
It has not been tested for side impacts.
Up front, seat-mounted side air bags provide torso protection in a side impact.
Although the government has backed down on side impacts, other rules continue to change.
The article mentions that the new transportation bill includes better safety regulations for side impacts.
The boat acted like a weathervane then, facing wind and waves and avoiding dangerous side impacts.
But curtain bags over the doors, to protect heads in a side impact, are not available.
If you can give people side impact air bags and make them standard, the customer sees that as a value".
Shielding passengers from injury in a side impact is a more vexing problem than protecting them in a frontal collision.
