概念汽车实用英语毛矛概念汽车实用英语U12章节.pptVIP

* * AUTOMOBILE SAFETY Passive safety refers to built-in features of a vehicle, such as crumple zones, seatbelts, and airbags, that work passively to prevent injury and do not change the vehicles action in response to crash scenario or severity. * AUTOMOBILE SAFETY A Swedish study found that pink cars are involved in the fewest accidents, with black cars being most often involved in crashes. In Auckland New Zealand, a study found that there was a significantly lower rate of serious injury in silver cars, with higher rates in brown, black, and green cars. * AUTOMOBILE SAFETY The Vehicle Color Study, published in 2007, analyzed 855,258 accidents occurring between 1987 and 2004 in the Australian states of Victoria and Western Australia that resulted in injury or in a vehicle being towed away. The study analyzed risk by light condition. It found that in daylight black cars were 12% more likely than white to be involved in an accident. At dawn or dusk the risk ratio for black cars jumped to 47% more likely than white. * NOTES TO THE TEXT 1. Automobile safety is the avoidance of automobile accidents or the minimization of harmful effects of accidents, in particular as pertaining to human life and health. 译文：汽车安全性是指避免汽车事故或者使事故的危害最小化，尤其是对于关系到人的生命与健康的事故。 * NOTES TO THE TEXT 2. As a result of improvements in highway and automobile design, the incidence of injuries and fatalities per mile driven has decreased significantly, but road traffic injuries still represent about 25% of worldwide injury-related deaths (the leading cause) with an estimated 1.2 million deaths (2004) each year. 译文：由于高速公路和汽车设计的改进，每行驶里程的伤亡率已经显著下降，但道路交通伤亡仍然以每年约120万的死亡人数（2004年）占全球因伤死亡人数的25%（首要原因）。 * NOTES TO THE TEXT 3. In 1958, the United Nations established the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations, an international standards body advancing auto safety. 译文：1958年，联合国成立了全球协调车辆法规论坛，一个促进汽车安全的国际标准组织。 * NOTES TO THE TEXT 4. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was created as an independ