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Car and Pedestrian Collisions: Causes and Avoidance Techniques

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Pedestrian safety is of vital importance and of increasing interest worldwide. New legislation passed to heighten pedestrian safety as well as car manufacturers’ own ethical goals have precipitated the search for viable solutions as to how to best protect pedestrians. In order to fulfill these legal requirements, car manufacturers and various research groups employ different technologies to develop passive and active pedestrian protection systems.

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We would like to thank the IEEE organization for permission to use the sources [4, 59–61] on which this chapter is based, i.e., several figures and parts of text have been reused.

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Flach, A., David, K. (2013). Car and Pedestrian Collisions: Causes and Avoidance Techniques. In: Naja, R. (eds) Wireless Vehicular Networks for Car Collision Avoidance. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9563-6_8

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