Comfortable Hand Control Reach of Passenger Car Drivers

Author / Creator

Hallén, Anders

Conferences

1977 International Automotive Engineering Congress and Exposition (1977-02-28 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

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Summary

This paper describes and presents the results of a test to establish the comfortable hand control reach capability of Swedish drivers while sitting in their normal driving position. The comfortable...

This paper describes and presents the results of a test to establish the comfortable hand control reach capability of Swedish drivers while sitting in their normal driving position. The comfortable hand control reach and the maximum restrained reach as described by ISO/SAE are compared. Also described is the way the test subjects adjusted the fully adjustable driver's seat to preferred seat position.

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