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Title: Dealing with rollovers: deploying technology to mitigate the potential; Sensors, controls, chassis adjustments, and other means and methods can help prevent a leading cause of fatalities on the roads today: rollovers. Here's a look.(Supply Side)
Author: Gary S. Vasilash
Publication: Automotive Design & Production (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2004
Publisher: Gardner Publications, Inc.
Volume: 116 Issue: 2 Page: 40(2)Distributed by Thompson Gale

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One of the biggest challenges related to chassis engineering today is developing the systems that will, in effect, maintain the chassis of a given car, truck or SUV on the road (or in the case of the last-named, on the road when it is intended to be there). The reason why is simple: research shows that when a vehicle is involved in a rollover, 90% of the time it has left the road. And in cases where vehicles rollover--especially if those vehicles are vans, pickups, or SUVs--there is a considerable level of fatalities that occur. Staying on the road is essential for safer driving.