Where Does Your Principal Sit? Excerpt from the ISDA Vehicle Survey Results

By on June 30th, 2016

Where Does the Principal Sit - ISDA, Inc.

The following is an excerpt from the results of 2015 ISDA Security Vehicle/Secure Transportation Survey.

One of the questions asked in the survey was – Where does the principal sit?

The survey indicates that an overwhelming number sit in the rear seats.

  • Front Passenger Seat  17.9%
  • Rear Right Seat            69.3%
  • Rear Left Seat              12.9%

Safety and Seating Location
The chances of surviving any serious car crash vary widely, depending on the nature of the collision, speed and type of vehicles involved. But for people seated in the front, those odds have improved significantly over the last two decades as regulators started requiring automakers to install air bags. Understandably, the car industry’s focus has been on better protecting riders in the front because that’s where most passengers, or roughly 88 percent, sit.

Also car makers have done little to enhance the safety of rear-seat passengers. Their focus is investing in technology aimed at avoiding accidents altogether, including lane detection warning systems and automatic brakes.

A lot of the technologies are moving away from crash worthiness to crash avoidance. That’s the shift we see taking place across the entire industry.

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