Government-Industry System Safety Conference
Papers presented at conference on system safety in government and industry
Jerome F. Lederer↗
Engineering topics
Elwood T. Driver
Publications and source records attributed to Elwood T. Driver.
Designing for auto safety
Safety design features in the motor vehicle and highway construction fields result from systems analysis approach to prevent or lessen death, injury, and property damage results. Systems analysis considers the prevention of crashes, increased survivability in crashes, and prompt medical attention to injuries as well as other postcrash salvage measures. The interface of these system elements with the driver, the vehicle, and the environment shows that action on the vehicle system produces the greatest safety payoff through design modifications. New and amended safety standards developed through hazard analysis technique improved accident statistics in the 70'; these regulations include driver qualifications and countermeasures to identify the chronic drunken driver who is involved in more than two-thirds of all auto deaths.
Elwood T. Driver↗