Project - Vehicular Crash safety Systems

TESLA

Tesla is pioneer company in field of e-vehicle and automation. their key focus is on revolutionizing the E vehicle technology, and integrating various IT tools in cars. Tesla vehicles are developed with the highest standards of safety in every aspect , which ranges from their design or physical structure or the technology involved.

Some of the enhanced security features are

• Cabin Camera
• Security Alarm
• pin to Drive
• Sentry Mode
• Require Manual Entry
• Intrusion Sensor

Along with this there are various changes in the physical design which helps in increasing passive safety like

• Battery Pack - the position and weight reduces the rise of rollover and improved handling in emergency situations
• Impact Protection - A patented side sill structure supports the chassis to absorb impact energy and protect the occupants and battery
• Structural Integrity - The rigid body and fortified battery helps to reduce and prevent cabin intrusion
• Crumple zones - large empty spaces in the front and rear soften impact and reduces the risk of occupant injuries
• Advanced Airbags - less cabin intrusion helps in preserve space for airbags to fully inflate and protect passenger
• Automatic Emergency braking - can detect vehicles, pedestrians or objects in front of you and apply brakes to mitigate the impact
• Forward collision warning - provides visual and audible warning of impending collision with vehicle or obstacle
• Blind spot collision warning - warns when a possible collision is detected with a vehicle or obstacle in your blind spot
• Lane departure avoidance - Applies corrective lane centering steering if a potential collision or unintended lane departure is detected
• Fire safety - in rare case of fire , tesla battery packs are designed to spread the heat away from cabin
• Low COG - low CG helps in reducing roll over characteristics in case of a crash

Tesla's safety record

tesla cars are engineered to be the safest car on road in the world as they involve a combination of passive safety, active safety and automated driver assistance. These are not only crucial for making the drivers in tesla safe , but all the vehicles on the road. As per testing by NHTSA tesla cars have lowest overall probability of injury of any vehicle ever tested.since 2018 tesla has volunteered to publically share its data regarding the accidents involving its products

in Q1 2021 - one crash for 4.19 million miles

in Q2 2021 - one crash for 4.41 million miles

in Q3 2021 - one crash for 4.97 million miles

in Q4 2021 - one crash for 4.31 million miles

this is astonishing low rate of crash for any vehicle, while for a vehicle not using tesla's autopilot and other aids , for them the rates are

in Q1 2021 - one crash for 2.05 million miles

in Q2 2021 - one crash for 1.20 million miles

in Q3 2021 - one crash for 1.60 million miles

in Q4 2021 - one crash for 1.59 million miles

According to the data tesla cars represented 273 accidents involving its advanced driver assist systems since companies were required to start reporting the incidents roughly a year ago. thats out of total of 392 crash reported by overall 11 automaker and one supplier from june 2021 through may15

honda was at second place with 90 reported accidents , followed by subaru at 10 and ford at 5 . all other companies have 4 or less accident

like toyota at 4 , BMW at 3 and GM at 2

the data releases is the first since govt began mandating in june 2021 that companies report incident which involve level 2 advanced driver assist system or higher , which are meant to help an attentive driver but not replace them , they include tesla's system like autopilot or GM's super cruise

Conclusion

it is indeed proven with records that such aids drastically reduce the crash probability , and even if crash happens most vehicles are capable of withstanding forces of accident , and keeping the occupant saved/

moreover they aid driver in travel and reduces the pressure on driver to steer vehicle through traffic.

even tho tesla cars with autopilot tech has the most accident in the industry , it is very less when compared to manually driver cars. Other reason for high rate of accidents among lv2 or higher autonomous vehicles is the high number of tesla vehicles on road. if we see rate of accidents per 1000 cars, then tesla has the least rate of accidents

Overall inclusion of such passive safety features should be mandated in upcoming years as they are helpful in reducing crash probability drastically.Inclusion of mandatory 6 airbags, lane assist , driver drowsiness monitor , blind spot monitoring , automatic braking system , etc help in reducing the crash probability. Accidents together constitute to a major portion of economic damage.