The Impact of Scrub Radius on Sport Utility Vehicle Handling

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Goddard ◽  
Paul Elwood
2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Lena Hille ◽  
Christian Geiger ◽  
Moritz Loock ◽  
John Peloza

Although research has widely investigated labels across a range of product domains, one understudied area is the use of absolute versus relative rating approaches to information provision. For example, under an absolute rating approach to vehicle ecolabels, the consumer is informed of the actual amount of fuel consumed during use of a vehicle compared with that of all other vehicles on the market. Under a relative rating approach, the fuel consumption is communicated in relative terms, comparing the vehicle only with others in the same class. The current research illustrates that switching from an absolute to a relative rating approach can lead to a reversal effect in the perception of a car's environmental friendliness. For example, a sport-utility vehicle can be perceived as either environmentally friendly or not, depending on the type of rating approach used. The authors demonstrate that visual representation drives this effect, using a colored alphabetical rating scale to communicate environmental performance.


Measurement ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 109381
Author(s):  
Mohamed A.A. Abdelkareem ◽  
Lin Xu ◽  
Xingjian Jing ◽  
Abdelrahman B.M. Eldaly ◽  
Junyi Zou ◽  
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2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Danyo ◽  
Christopher S. Young ◽  
Henry J. Cornille ◽  
Joseph Porcari

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganesan Subbiah ◽  
Aymen Sharook Allaudeen ◽  
Hemanandh Janarthanam ◽  
Purushothaman Mani ◽  
Senthilkumar Gnanamani ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Paul J. Carlson ◽  
Gene Hawkins

A study was conducted to determine the legibility impacts of freeway guide signs when encapsulated retroreflective sheeting is replaced with microprismatic retroreflective sheeting. The study included freeway guide signs mounted in an overhead position and exclusively illuminated with vehicle headlamps. A total of 60 subjects divided into three age groups participated in this nighttime study. All 60 subjects drove two vehicles, a modern sport utility vehicle (SUV) and a late-model passenger car. The findings show that microprismatic sheeting does provide statistically longer legibility distances than encapsulated sheeting. Overall, the improvement was 53 ft, or 9.5%. However, for the modern SUV, the improvement was much greater (78 ft) compared with the late-model passenger car (28 ft). The main differences are related to the evolution of vehicle design and specifications. Today’s United States citizens prefer large vehicles such as an SUV, pickup, and minivan. These vehicles also meet recently revised headlamp specifications. These two issues inherently reduce the amount of headlamp light retroreflected from the sign back to the driver. Unfortunately, these counterproductive trends show signs of continuing. Considering the increasing proportion of older drivers in the United States, it becomes even more critical that transportation agencies do all they can to increase overhead-sign luminance. The findings show that increasing overhead-sign luminance by switching from encapsulated retroreflective sheeting to microprismatic retro-reflective sheeting results in significantly longer legibility distances. The magnitude of the difference will continue to increase as long as the SUV-like proportion of the U.S. fleet continues to grow and headlamp specifications continue to direct less light toward overhead signs.


2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Guba ◽  
Youngwook Ko ◽  
Giorgio Rizzoni ◽  
Gary J. Heydinger ◽  
Dennis A. Guenther ◽  
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Author(s):  
Abolfazl Seifi ◽  
Reza Hassannejad ◽  
Mohammad Ali Hamed

In this study, a new method to improve ride comfort, vehicle handling, and workspace was presented in multi-objective optimization using nonlinear asymmetrical dampers. The main aim of this research was to provide suitable passive suspension based on more efficiency and the low cost of the mentioned dampers. Using the model with five degrees of freedom, suspension system parameters were optimized under sinusoidal road excitation. The main functions of the suspension system were chosen as objective functions. In order to better illustrate the impact of each objective functions on the suspension parameters, at first two-objective and finally five-objective were considered in the optimization problem. The obtained results indicated that the optimized viscous coefficients for five-objective optimization lead to 3.58% increase in ride comfort, 0.74% in vehicle handling ability, and 2.20% in workspace changes for the average of forward and rear suspension.


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