auto safety engineering

developmental disabilities, ADHD, clinical practice, autism spectrum disorders, distracted driving, research tools and methods, crash risk, auto safety engineering

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Flashback Friday: National Child Passenger Safety Week

In honor of National Child Passenger Safety Week, we round up some of our recent child passenger safety blog posts.

Child, Parenting, and Healthcare Provider Issues

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Outreach Communications

CPS education, booster seats, CPS best practice, child car seat installation, child occupant protection, Child safety research, child restraint use, child passenger safety, car seat installation, autonomous vehicles, auto safety engineering, international child passenger safety

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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Child Passenger Safety Research as a Trainee

In this guest blog post, Shreyas Sarfare shares his experience as a biomechanics trainee at CIRP and how it has shaped his future career in research.

pediatric biomechanics, auto safety engineering, graduate internships, mentoring, child occupant protection, computational modeling

Training Opportunities

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Sparking An Interest in Child Passenger Safety Research

Read about the graduate student research experiences of Madeline Griffith, MS that led to her becoming a Research Project Engineer at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Center for Injury Research and Prevention.

pediatric biomechanics, auto safety engineering, graduate internships, mentoring, child occupant protection

Training Opportunities

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Preventing Crashes with Automatic Emergency Braking

Read about new research, funded by the Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies (CChIPS), that shows automatic emergency braking to be very effective in preventing rear-end striking crashes.

auto safety engineering, crash risk, vehicle safety

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Child Passengers and Autonomous Vehicles: An International Perspective

With autonomous driving systems (ADS) becoming more prevalent on our roadways, the child safety community considers how these advancements uniquely impact children and adolescents. Read key takeaways from an international workshop that defined priorities in research, product design, and information/communication.

autonomous vehicles, auto safety engineering, international child passenger safety

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How Age and Gender Affect Emergency Takeover in Self-Driving Cars

Read about a new CChIPS study published in Traffic Injury Prevention that explores how age and sex impact a person’s ability to respond to an emergency when in a self-driving vehicle.

autonomous vehicles, auto safety engineering

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Read the 2019 CChIPS Annual Report

The Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies (CChIPS) has released its 2019 Annual Report highlighting research projects funded through the consortium for the 2018-2019 project year.

autonomous vehicles, auto safety engineering, anthropomorphic test devices

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Human Factors and Automated Vehicles

Learn about new Human Factors research recently presented at the sixth Automated Vehicles Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

auto safety engineering, autonomous vehicles

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Join Our Researchers at Lifesavers

Learn about upcoming CIRP presentations at this year's Lifesavers Conference, including using technology to combat distracted driving, why teens drive distracted, and child passenger safety and autonomous vehicles.

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