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In London, around two-thirds of those killed in collisions involving a bus are pedestrians and most of these are killed crossing the road. The time between the pedestrian first being recognisable as a threat and the moment of impact is usually less than 2 seconds. Human drivers have very limited opportunity to avoid the collision. Automated Emergen...
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... estimated response of the braking system was applied to the level of deceleration demanded by the system and the actual peak deceleration calculated. Figure 6 shows that in some cases, the actual peak deceleration of the bus was lower than the peak demand, and in four of the 17 false positive events (24%) the duration of the demand would have been too short for there to be any deceleration at all. The false positive events that produced the greatest peak deceleration were all cases in which the level of deceleration ramped up over the duration of the event. ...
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To estimate the number of collateral casualties associated with road users considered responsible for a road crash.
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We analyzed the case series comprising all 790,435 road users involved in road crashes with victims in Spain from 2009 to 2013, recorded in a nationwide police-based registry. For each road user assumed to be res...
