Potential Injury Risk Related to Failing Steering Column Crash System

<div class="section abstract"><div class="htmlview paragraph">Despite being used in vehicle crash systems since decades, the severity of a failing steering crash systems is not investigated in detail.</div><div class="htmlview paragraph">To accurately assess risks associated with a failing steering column crash system, a study was performed using three distinct failing mechanism. Those were compared to the baseline of a non-failing system. It could be shown that every one of these failures introduce an added injury probability to the driver.</div></div>