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Typical pedestrian accident scenarios for the development of autonomous emergency braking test protocols

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posted on 2016-06-29, 13:32 authored by James Lenard, Alexandra Badea-Romero, Russell Danton
An increasing proportion of new vehicles are being fitted with autonomous emergency braking systems. It is difficult for consumers to judge the effectiveness of these safety systems for individual models unless their performance is evaluated through track testing under controlled conditions. This paper aimed to contribute to the development of relevant test conditions by describing typical circumstances of pedestrian accidents. Cluster analysis was applied to two large British databases and both highlighted an urban scenario in daylight and fine weather where a small pedestrian walks across the road, especially from the near kerb, in clear view of a driver who is travelling straight ahead. For each dataset a main test configuration was defined to represent the conditions of the most common accident scenario along with test variations to reflect the characteristics of less common accident scenarios. Some of the variations pertaining to less common accident circumstances or to a minority of casualties in these scenarios were proposed as optional or supplementary test elements for an outstanding performance rating. Many considerations are incorporated into the final design and implementation of an actual testing regime, such as cost and the state of development of technology; only the representation of accident data lay within the scope of this paper. It would be desirable to ascertain the wider representativeness of the results by analysing accident data from other countries in a similar manner.

Funding

The On-the-Spot project was funded by the Department for Transport and the Highways Agency. Funding for analyses of OTS and STATS19 was received from Thatcham Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre (UK) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (USA).

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Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volume

73

Pages

73 - 80

Citation

LENARD, J., BADEA-ROMERO, A. and DANTON, R., 2014. Typical pedestrian accident scenarios for the development of autonomous emergency braking test protocols. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 73, pp. 73 - 80.

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© Elsevier

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014

Notes

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal, Accident Analysis and Prevention. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2014.08.012

ISSN

0001-4575

Language

  • en

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