Comparing motor-vehicle crash risk of EU and US vehicles
Report, 2015
This study examined the hypotheses that vehicles meeting EU safety standards perform similarly to US-regulated vehicles in the US driving environment, and vice versa. The analyses used three statistical approaches to “triangulate” evidence regarding differences in crash and injury risk. Separate analyses assessed crash avoidance technologies, including headlamps and mirrors. The results suggest that when controlling for differences in environment and exposure, vehicles meeting EU standards offer reduced risk of serious injury in frontal/side crashes and have driver‐side mirrors that reduce risk in lane-change crashes better, while vehicles meeting US standards provide a lower risk of injury in rollovers and have headlamps that make pedestrians more conspicuous.
likelihood surface
crash avoidance
rollover
comparison EU US
headlamps
side mirrors
logistic regression
SUR
Bayes factor
Crashworthiness
front-side crashes
injury risk
Author
Carol A. Flannagan
András Bálint
Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Vehicle Safety
Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers
Kathleen D. Klinich
Ulrich Sander
Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Vehicle Engineering and Autonomous Systems
Miriam A. Manary
Sophie Cuny
Michael McCarthy
Vuthy Phan
Caroline Wallbank
Paul E. Green
Bo Sui
Åsa Forsman
Helen Fagerlind
Chalmers, Applied Mechanics, Vehicle Safety
Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers
Driving Forces
Sustainable development
Areas of Advance
Transport
Subject Categories
Transport Systems and Logistics
Vehicle Engineering
Probability Theory and Statistics
Roots
Basic sciences