1. Scope This SAE Recommended Practice establishes methods for describing and measuring the driver’s field of view. The document describes three methods for measuring the direct and indirect fields of view and the extent of obstructions within those fields. The first method uses any single pair of eye points to determine the fields or obstructions…
ABSTRACT This paper is primarily a printed listing of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Light Vehicle Inertial Parameter Database. This database contains measured vehicle inertial parameters from SAE Paper 930897, “Measured Vehicle Inertial Parameters – NHTSA’s Data Through September 1992” (1), as well as parameters obtained by NHTSA since 1992. The proceeding paper…
Foreword – This SAE Recommended Practice describes the eyellipse, a statistical representation of driver eye locations, which is used to facilitate design and evaluation of vision in motor vehicles. Examples of eyellipse applications include rearview mirror size and placement, wiped and defrosted areas, pillar size and location, and general exterior field of view. These applications…
Foreword—This Document was not changed other than to put it into the new SAE Technical Standards Board Format. 1. Scope —The devices of this SAE Standard provide the means by which passenger compartment dimensions can be obtained using a deflected seat rather than a free seat contour as a reference for defining seating space. All…
RATIONALE This revision reduces the complexity of this practice by simplifying the General Package Factor (G) equation, clarifying conditions for using restrained and unrestrained reach tables, removing English unit tables, clarifying the G value boundaries between each reach table, describing in more detail how to interpret when a control is considered within reach, and limiting…