Ode to the Racecar: Improvements in Vehicular Safety Are Inspired by Racing
These systems, too, attempt to warn the driver of a potentially hazardous situation through audio or visual alerts. When an equipped vehicle begins to sway into another lane, sensors in the side panel are activated and a warning is issued. When a potentially hazardous situation to the side of a vehicle occurs, another alert is issued. Some technologies in racing are still providing inspiration to the rest of the vehicular markets. Accident data recorders are small, lightweight boxes mounted in racecars that record certain signals from multiple sensors at speeds of up to 1,000 samples per second.Monitored parameters can include wheel speed, throttle position, steering angle, tire pressure, three-axes acceleration and seatbelt loads. Sensors can be located anywhere from the accelerometers in the car's roll hoop to the driver's earpiece, which can measure forces on the car and driver. Top-notch recorders can collect data throughout an entire drag race - versus older models that only record a triggering event and the periods before and after engine shutdown.
The best are also modified to run off their own battery power - rather than add to the draw on the car's power system - and to store data in memory retrievable via a high-speed data link to a personal computer. This assists experts in assessing what was happening in a car at any given point during a run.
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