Crash Safety

To reduce traffic accident fatalities and injuries

Traffic accidents claim the lives of about seven thousand people every year. In addition to maintaining the convenience and social functions of automobiles, the issue of society requiring a reduction in the number of traffic accident victims remains.

In order to verify the effectiveness of safety measures installed in vehicles, it is necessary to propose an appropriate test method that reflects the real world accidents. We at JARI are continuously involved in developing new test methods for vehicle safety.

As the proportion of accidents involving pedestrians is high in Japan in comparison with other advanced automobile countries, activities related to the research into test methods for protecting pedestrians is drawing much attention from around the world.

JARI has been involved in the research into pedestrian protection ever since our establishment, and the resulting data and options are made available on an international scale.

Surveying and analysis of real world traffic accidents are extremely important in crash safety. Owing to this, we are accumulating data from accident reconstruction tests and developing software to simulate the traffic accidents on computers.

Researching the degree of impact aimed at a better understanding of what happens to the human body during automobile collisions is a fundamental and very important issue. We at JARI have cooperated with people from the field of medicine and from overseas research institutes to carry out our research into the injury mechanisms in traffic accidents, and we have achieved a great deal of success. We are also involved in the development and evaluation of dummies for use in impact tests by making the best use of these achievements.