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2019 ESV Konferenz - Calculation of the point of no return (PONR) from real-world accidents

Continuing efforts in the field of traffic accident research has led to the development of various active and passive safety systems. They act and influence an incident/accident at different points in time in order to mitigate or avoid a collision. In the event of a collision, the decision to deploy passive safety systems must be made quickly, as the typi-cal activation time is between 10 to 40 ms after the initial contact. However, for future interior/seating concepts and earlier deployment times of restraint systems it is necessary to predict an unavoidable collision much earlier. As the knowledge about this so-called Point Of No Return (PONR) is crucial, this paper introduces an approach to calculate it through using numerical simulation.