The Insurance Institute For Highway Safety has a new crash test to evaluate frontal crashes.
“Nearly every new car performs well in other frontal crash tests conducted by the Institute and the federal government, but we still see more than 10,000 deaths in frontal crashes each year,” Institute President Adrian Lund .Read more...
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has a new ‘Small Overlap’ test to evaluate automotive safety.
Here is the Mercedes C class.
Wired reports on new technologies for crash dummies.
“With 33,000 people in the U.S. dying last year in collisions, there’s a disconnect between crash test results and what underserved people are experiencing in accidents,” says Matt Reed, Head of the Biosciences Group at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).
To back .Read more...
Dr. Eric G. Meyer with William Addis, a senior in biomedical engineering, preformed femur fracture testing on April 18. They did 12 experiments at Henry Ford Museum with Matt Goodwin the Roundhouse Supervisor. He drove a diesel train over several bones from two directions (medial and lateral) with the bones .Read more...
The Washington Post examines the move towards using smaller ‘females’ crash test dummies.
Consumer advocates say the female dummy’s subpar performance in some top-selling vehicles reveals a need to better study women and smaller people in collisions. Until recently, only male dummies were used during more than three decades of government .Read more...
Brian T. Weaver, P.E. and Steve A. Rundell, Ph.D., P.E., featured in a Gannett news article regarding the new Detroit Office.
This engineering application known as “injury causation analysis” can be explained in simple terms, said Weaver: “In order to understand the injury, you have to understand the event.”
Yet there’s no denying the complexity .Read more...
Mark Schoofs from the Wall Street Journal discusses advances made in HIV research and how this could affect other areas.
Scientists using a powerful mathematical tool previously applied to the stock market have identified an Achilles heel in HIV that could be a prime target for AIDS vaccines or drugs.
The research .Read more...
The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times weigh in on the recent study from the American Academy of Pediatrics on child safety and car seats:
Madonna Behen from the New York Times:“People cheer when they turn their kid around at one year, but hopefully some day they’ll cheer at .Read more...
One aspect of the news regarding Osama Bin Laden was the rapid DNA match that confirmed his identity. Kit Eaton at Fast Company magazine takes a look at ‘DNA matching‘ and how it was used by the military.
DNA matching (also known as genetic fingerprinting) is different to full DNA sequencing–a .Read more...
The New York Times examines the brain–up close.
Cerebellar Purkinje neurons, 2003. This photomicrograph shows a portion of the cerebellum in which only one type of neuron — its Purkinje cells — has been illuminated by a genetically encoded fluorescent protein; meanwhile, other classes of neighboring neurons that .Read more...
BC Business Online looks at two British Columbia accident reconstruction firms:
With offices also in Ontario and California and a staff of 54, MEA is part of a small community of B.C. forensic engineering companies internationally recognized for investigating disasters such as collapsed buildings, equipment failures, police .Read more...
