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    This document discusses vehicle safety and road accidents in India. Some key points: - Over 1,37,000 people were killed in road accidents in India in 2013 alone, more than the number killed in all wars. - 16 children die on Indian roads daily and 1214 road crashes occur daily. - Drunken driving is a leading cause of road fatalities. - Specific safety techniques and assurance procedures are needed to effectively design for safety.

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    This document discusses vehicle safety and road accidents in India. Some key points: - Over 1,37,000 people were killed in road accidents in India in 2013 alone, more than the number killed in all wars. - 16 children die on Indian roads daily and 1214 road crashes occur daily. - Drunken driving is a leading cause of road fatalities. - Specific safety techniques and assurance procedures are needed to effectively design for safety.

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    Introduction To Vehicle Safety

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    INTRODUCTION TO

    VEHICLE SAFETY
    Objectives
    ■ Provide useful information that could save lives
    ■ Prevent personal injury
    ■ Reduce property damage
    ■ Generally improve the individual’s quality of life
    Better understanding of good design practices will
    enable product improvement that manifests
    significantly less risk to humans, machines, and the
    environment.
    Statistics
    Statistics
    Over 1,37,000 people were
    killed in road accidents in
    2013 alone, that is more
    than the number of people
    killed in all our wars put
    together.

    16 children die on
    Indian roads daily.
    Statistics
    ■ One serious road accident in the country occurs every
    minute and 16 die on Indian roads every hour.
    ■ 1214 road crashes occur every day in India.
    ■ Two wheelers account for 25% of total road crash
    deaths.
    ■ 20 children under the age of 14 die every day due to
    road crashes in in the country.
    ■ 377 people die every day, equivalent to a jumbo jet
    crashing every day.
    ■ Two people die every hour in Uttar Pradesh – State
    with maximum number of road crash deaths.
    ■ Tamil Nadu is the state with the maximum number of
    road crash injuries
    Top 10 cities by number of road accidents in
    2016
    Top 10 states by number of road accidents in
    2016
    Break-up of persons killed by road
    use category in 2016
    Age, gender-wise break-up of persons killed
    in road accidents in 2016
    No. of persons killed in road
    accidents in past 12 years
    Good intentions are not enough!
    ■ Achieving safety is a fairly sophisticated process
    and requires special effort.
    ■ We have entered a new era of fairly constant
    design improvements and significant world trade
    competition.
    ■ Safety problems can suddenly appear and have
    dramatic consequences.
    ■ Specific techniques and assurance procedures are
    corporate health essentials.
    Drunken driving

    Drunken driving is one of the leading causes of road fatalities


    Adequacy of knowledge
    ■ A design engineer may have had very little
    knowledge of specific design safety principles.
    ■ There may be little or nothing available in terms
    of sources of information.
    ■ The company safety guidelines, engineering
    manuals, or policy documents may abound with
    good-sounding generalities, but fail to address
    specific questions or provide the necessary help.
    ■ The engineer may try to the best of his capability,
    but a lack of relevant knowledge
    Someone else’s responsibility
    ■ the focus is usually on iteratively obtaining desired
    product performance and seeking to obtain customer
    satisfaction.
    ■ Under such circumstances, safety may be assumed to
    be secondary service function.
    ■ ‘shifting responsibility’ may be found in an engineer’s
    opinion as to the ‘safe use’ of a product.
    ■ If there should be effective safe-use communication
    with the consumer, user, operator, worker, or
    bystander, it could reduce accidents.
    ■ But history has shown that it will not eliminate
    accidents and sometimes is virtually ineffective.
    The hear-no-evil problem
    ■ During the design process, those who convey ‘good
    news’ are very welcome.
    ■ Those who convey negative messages usually suffer
    the fate of the unwelcome messenger.
    ■ Unfortunately, the discovery of a possible safety
    problem is ‘bad news’.
    ■ Since design managers do not welcome bad news and
    this may be perceived as a desire to hear no evil.
    ■ The philosophical approach should be that early
    discovery of a potential safety problem saves the
    considerable time and cost that would have to be
    expended at a later date.
    Generic implications
    ■ Vehicle safety problems may originate from damage
    during
    – fabrication,
    – assembly-line errors and omissions, and
    – flaws during manufacture
    – damage during vehicle transport to the dealer,
    – particularly for import vehicles.
    – during showroom demonstrations and rides
    – from service and repair discrepancies
    – owner-operator may subject the vehicle to misuse
    – Aftermarket accessories and customizing of
    vehicles

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