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Airbags
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Frontal Airbags
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Side-Impact Airbags
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Seatbelts
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Electronics
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Child Restraints
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Inflators
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Anti-Whiplash Seat
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Steering Wheels
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Fixed-Hub
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Recent Innovations
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Night Vision System
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Pedestrian Protection
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Safety-Vent Bag
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Quality
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Tools - Methodologies
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Research
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Some Projects
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Reports and Papers
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Crash testing
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Achievements
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| As all automotive safety companies, Autoliv started by focusing on In-crash systems that mitigate the consequences for the occupants of a vehicle crash.
As part of Autoliv's Total Safety System approach, the company then widened its scope of research by starting to develop both Pre-crash systems and Post-crash systems. The pre-crash systems are often active systems that are aimed at preparing the safety systems for an imminent crash or, preferably, avoiding the crash altogether. Post-crash systems are devised to increase the occupant's chances of surviving after a serious accident. |
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| Autoliv's Total Safety System means that its safety products should be aimed at giving the best possible protection to any occupant in any type of collision without introducing any significant injury to any occupant in any position. This means that components and sub-systems have to be designed to interact with each other as one system. Seat belt pretensioners and frontal airbags, for instance, are tuned to each other via the same electronic control unit (ECU) to give the best possible protective effect, and the deployment of the frontal airbags should be adjusted depending on seat belt use. |
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| In real life, crashes are almost never head-on collisions into a solid rock or barrier at one specific speed (as in most test required by the authorities). Consequently, future safety systems should be able to do more than just determine if an accident is a frontal crash, a side impact, a rear-end collision or a roll-over. An ideal system should also be able to identify the object which the car hits and the width of the object, as well as the speed of a vehicle it hits. Autoliv's research and development is therefore aimed at protecting real people in real crashes, and not protecting test dummies in crash tests mandated by authorities. |
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