ultralight-weight vehicles
jalen / jason
Are the fundamental responsibilities of safety engineers compromised
The fundamental responsibility of a safety engineer is compromised by the design of this lightweight car. If you specify that a case should be designed so that it is light as possible regardless of safety concerns, then a safety engineer has to essentially dream up reasons why the car he is designing is safe, i.e. risk homeostasis theory, instead of actually implementing safety devices. - University of Virginia
The government should formulate the safety requirements, not the engineers themselves. - Delft University of Technology
cost-benefit analysis
The essence of a lightweight car is its weight and usually cost. These are difficult to combine with safety. Both weight and costs give restrictions to the opportunities for the use of safety systems. If there are no lightweight alternatives to conventional safety systems an engineer will have to decide his/her own safety limits. This decision is an ethical problem. - Delft University of Technology
trade offs
- lightweight versus safety
- lightweight versus costs
- lightweight versus recycling
- fuel efficiency versus safety
Should lightweight cars be required to meet government safety regulations
Lightweight cars should not be required to meet existing safety regulations as safety of lightweight cars is based on a totally different concept. As with motorcycles a different set of safety regulations should be developed for lightweight cars. - Delft University of Technology