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Fully instrumented automobile collision experiments, with anthropometric dummies taking the place of motorists, provide scientific data not otherwise obtainable. An engineering analysis of the physical factors relating to three experimental car-to-ear side impacts at 30 mph is presented. The instrumentation, equipment, facilities, and operational procedures used to obtain this information are briefly described. Specific data include position-time sequences of occupants and vehicles during and following impact, their linear, rotational and vectorial deceleration and acceleration patterns; the colliding vehicles' interaction as well as the interaction of occupants with vehicle interiors, as quantified by force-time and kinematic behavior patterns with resulting inferred injuries. Three fully instrumented automobile collisions of the intersection type were conducted.

TYLER HICKS has examined hundreds of enineering reports … and traced the results they get and don't get. Much of what he has learned from these years of analysis is focused in his book titled, “Technical Report Writing” … and, in its direct application to automotive engineers, in this article. Hicks is editor of engineering and industrial books at McGraw-Hill Book Co.; was formerly a technical editor of Power; and has taught mechanical engineering at Cooper Union in New York.