Highly automated vehicles will offer new, more comfortable seating positions creating the need for advanced and novel restraint systems in order to best possible protect all occupants in future accident scenarios. OSCCAR will therefore develop new advanced occupant protection principles and contribute to the improvement of diverse, omnidirectional, biofidelic and robust human body models (HBMs).

The day before the Human Modeling Symposium, we organize the seminar on the model-based head injury criteria at the conference hotel Eurostars in Berlin. The speaker is Prof. Remy Willinger, a recognized expert in the field and developer of the Strasbourg University Finite Element Head Model SUFEHM. By using SUFEHM, translational and rotational accelerations of the head can be taken into account when determining the head injury mechanisms. As a result, head injuries can be determined more accurately and also for new load cases that are related to the new seating positions that are possible with autonomous driving.

Kettering University faculty and graduate students have developed a new, more efficient way to view how a vehicle body vibrates in order to help create better body designs in the future.

Volkswagen Motorsport shattered the time record at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Finishing in 7.57.148 minutes, Driver Romain Dumas (F) crossed the line in Volkswagen's first-ever, fully-electric race car, the I.D. R Pikes Peak - a next-generation racecar developed with ANSYS simulation solutions.