Open AccessWill Automated Driving Technologies Make Today’s Effective Restraint Systems Obsolete?
Author(s) -
Damien Subit,
Philippe Vézin,
Sébastien Laporte,
Baptiste Sandoz
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2017.304009
Subject(s) - humanities , library science , political science , art , computer science
Autonomous driving will trigger a shift in the epidemiology of road traffic injuries that is raising concerns for public health and requires the design of new strategies for the protection of vehicle occupants. Indeed, today's effective protection systems were developed for crashes caused primarily by human errors, and they may be ineffective or even injurious in the new typology of crashes that will arise with the increasing level of automation in vehicles. There is a need to continuously analyze and forecast vehicles behavior on roads as automated driving technologies spread and get updated, to design effective countermeasures and address ethical and public health challenges