Overview

Automotive Vehicle Safety is a unique academic text, practical design guide and valuable reference book. It provides information that is essential for specialists to make better-informed decisions. The book identifies and discusses key generic safety principles and their applications and includes decision-making criteria, examples and remedies. It provides the reader with in-depth information on human simulation, human error control, driver distractions, future vehicle safety and universal design and details accident reconstruction techniques and methods of crash testing. Automotive Vehicle Safety shows the reader how to evaluate products, processes, services and systems.

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Author:   George A. Peters ,  Barbara J. Peters
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   CRC Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.616kg
ISBN:  

9780415263337

ISBN 10:   0415263336
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   29 August 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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The authors mix one part philosophy with another part engineering to describe the ethics of automobile design. Using examples from the real world, they illustrate how ethical design principles can reduce societal harm and its attendant cost. [The book] provides some interesting insights into the analysis of a product's foreseeable use and misuse as an element of sound design practice. - Trial, Aug. 2003

"""The authors mix one part philosophy with another part engineering to describe the ethics of automobile design. Using examples from the real world, they illustrate how ethical design principles can reduce societal harm and its attendant cost. [The book] provides some interesting insights into the analysis of a product's foreseeable use and misuse as an element of sound design practice."" - Trial, Aug. 2003"

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Peters, George A.; Peters, Barbara J.

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