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An In-depth Analysis of Head-on Collision Accidents for Frontal Crash Tests of Automated Driving Vehicles

자율주행자동차 정면충돌평가방안 마련을 위한 국내 정면충돌사고 심층분석 연구

  • 박요한 (삼성화재 교통안전문화연구소) ;
  • 박원필 (삼성화재 교통안전문화연구소) ;
  • 김승기 (삼성화재 교통안전문화연구소)
  • Received : 2023.10.30
  • Accepted : 2023.12.18
  • Published : 2023.12.31

Abstract

The seating postures of passengers in the automated driving vehicle are possible in atypical forms such as rear-facing and lying down. It is necessary to improve devices such as airbags and seat belts to protect occupants from injury in accidents of the automated driving vehicle, and collision safety evaluation tests must be newly developed. The purpose of this study is to define representative types of head-on collision accidents to develop collision standards for autonomous vehicles that take into account changes in driving behavior and occupants' postures. 150 frontal collision cases remained by filtering (accident videos, images, AIS 2+, passenger car, etc…) and random sampling from approximately 320,000 accidents claimed by a major insurance company over the past 5 years. The most frequent accident type is a head-on collision between a vehicle going straight and a vehicle turning left from the opposite side, accounting for 54.7% of all accidents, and most of these accidents occur in permissive left turns. The next most common frontal collision is the center-lane violation by drowsy driving and careless driving, accounting for 21.3% of the total. For the two types above, data such as vehicle speed, contact point/area, and PDOF at the moment of impact are obtained through accident reconstruction using PC-Crash. As a result, two types of autonomous vehicle crash safety test scenarios are proposed: (1) a frontal oblique collision test based on the accident types between a straight vehicle and a left-turning vehicle, and (2) a small overlap collision test based on the head-on accidents of center-lane violation.

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Acknowledgement

본 연구는 국토교통부/교통과학기술진흥원의 지원으로 수행되었습니다(과제번호 22AMDP-C160637-02).

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