May 13 – 15, 2025 | Frankfurt/Hanau, Germany

SafetyUpDate

May 14 – 15, 2025

UN ECE and Euro NCAP Requirements

The New UN ECE Regulation for Automated Driving
John F. Creamer - GlobalAutoRegs.com

Legal Requirements Passive Safety
Oliver Zander - BASt - German Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute

Updates on Euro NCAP: Structure, Ratings System and New Topics
Richard Schram - Euro NCAP

Euro NCAP Safe Driving and Crash Avoidance
Adriano Palao - Euro NCAP

Euro NCAP Crash Protection and Post Crash
Volker Sandner - ADAC Technik Zentrum Landsberg

Testing of ADAS Systems During the General Inspection
Daniel Burckhardt - FSD Fahrzeugsystemdaten GmbH

Accident Research

25 Years GIDAS – What Did We Learn? What Do We Still Not Know?
Thomas Lich - Robert Bosch GmbH; Marcus Wisch - BASt - German Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute

Analysis of Life-threatening (MAIS3+) Injuries in Germany and Europe and Findings for Vehicle Safety
Henrik Liers - Verkehrsunfallforschung an der TU Dresden GmbH

Metrics on injury severity and definition of life-threatening injuries
Statistics on the relevance of MAIS3+ injured persons in Europe
GIDAS analyses on life-threatening injuries
Challenges of the current data situation
Activities to enrich the German road accident statistics

Accident Data Recorder - Recorded Parameters, Data Rates, Data Protection
Marcus Wisch - BASt - German Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute

Electric Vehicle Safety

New European Legal Requirements
Dr. Natalia Lebedeva - European Commission, Joint Research Centre

The Best Possible Crash Structure Performance While Keeping the Mass Low
Meng Ng - Lucid Motors USA Inc.

Designing frontal for an E-SUV to meet global safety standards needs to taken into consideration of 4 major high speed frontal crash load cases – USNCAP FFB35mph, IIHS SORB 64kph, IIHS ODB 64kph and EURONCAP MPDB.
The IIHS SORB requires a very strong front structure to generate enough lateral push for the glance off strategy to work. However, the other 3 load-cases prefer a softer front structure for energy absorption and load distribution.
In addition to balancing the front structure for these 4 load-cases, keeping the mass as low as possible to maximize driving range of an EV is very important.
This session will cover the overall structural design of the Lucid Gravity frontal BIW and Chassis in pursuing the best possible crash structure performance while keeping mass low.

Equitable Safety

Legal Activities - UNECE Working Group / SENIORS Project
Bernd Lorenz - BASt - German Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute

HMI, Driver Status Monitoring & Occupant Monitoring

Driving Safely while Reading: Optimizing Text Interfaces to Reduce Driver Distraction
Jessica Aimee Kienzle, Dr. Natalia Sevcenko - Mercedes-Benz

Layout and cognitive tasks with text interfaces and their complexity in the vehicle
Findings from previous simulator studies on the evaluation of driver distraction through text interaction

Tolerable Amount of Visual, Acustic and Haptic Warnings