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MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1971
To the Editor .—I would like to call your readers' attention to the effective date of the Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 213, Child Seating Systems, which is April 1, 1971 ( Federal Register , 35: 14759-14821, 1970). This ruling provides that child seating systems offered for sale have to meet specifications set by the National Highway Traffic ...
Eugene Lariviere   +2 more
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Motor vehicle drivers’ injuries in train–motor vehicle crashes

Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2015
The objectives of this research were to: (1) identify a more suitable model for modeling injury severity of motor vehicle drivers involved in train-motor vehicle crashes at highway-rail grade crossings from among three commonly used injury severity models and (2) to investigate factors associated with injury severity levels of motor vehicle drivers ...
Shanshan Zhao, Aemal Khattak
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Motor Vehicles

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 1985
The author discusses the epidemiology of injuries from motor vehicles, the leading killer of children. Type and mechanism of trauma, restrain use, children's relative risk, and issues for advocacy are presented in this article on the occupants of motor vehicles.
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Burns in Motor Vehicle Accidents

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1985
Burns received as a result of motor vehicle accidents (MVA's) create special problems in their care, as they are frequently severe and are often associated with other injuries. One hundred seventy-eight consecutive patients with burns sustained in an MVA were studied. The mean TBSA burn was 33.9%. The mortality was 24.7%, but the mean burn size in this
Charles R. Baxter   +5 more
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Suicide by Motor Vehicle

Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1983
Abstract Five suicides by motor vehicle drivers are reported. Possible frequency of such incidents and methods for their investigation, as well as patterns and characteristics of suicidal behavior, are discussed. Published reports of suicide by motor vehicle are scarce. Proven cases should be reported by medical examiners and coroners to
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Energy for Motor Vehicles

Scientific American, 1990
The world's fleet of cars, trucks and buses, numbering 500 million, grows faster than the human population and consumes half of the world's oil. More efficient engines, alternative fuels and new transit systems promise to slow the growth in oil consumption and mitigate its environmental consequences. These new technologies are described.
Peter Walzer, Deborah L. Bleviss
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Motor vehicle muffler

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2003
A motor vehicle muffler having a muffler loop installed in a casing in the exhaust pipe of a motor vehicle, the muffler loop formed of three muffler tubes and two connecting tubes, the muffler tubes being arranged at different elevations in the casing and crossed by one another at the same point, the connecting tubes being arranged in parallel outside ...
Shun-Lai Chen, Changhwa Hsien
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Motor-vehicle safety [PDF]

open access: possible, 2014
In addition to the components of the drivetrain (engine, transmission), which provide the vehicle with its means of forward motion, the vehicle systems that limit movement and retard the vehicle also have an important role to play. Without them, safe use of the vehicle in road traffic would not be possible.
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Motor Vehicle Conspicuity

SAE Technical Paper Series, 1983
This paper addresses the relationship between vehicle conspicuity and probability of accident involvement. As used here, conspicuity refers not only to the "noticeability" of the vehicle, but also to the recognizability of the vehicle and its behavior relative to the observer.
Robert L. Henderson   +3 more
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Electrified Motor-Vehicles

Nature, 1939
WHILE to experience an electric shock from a motor-vehicle appears from a recent note to be unusual in England1, it is so common in the United States as to call for no comment. An interesting consequence of this phenomenon is to be seen on the San Francisco-Oakland and Golden Gate Bridges, where thousands of cars a day pass the toll gates and where the
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