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NHTSA’S NCAP ROLLOVER RESISTANCE RATING SYSTEM Patrick L. Boyd National Highway Traffic Safety Administration United States Paper Number 05-0450 ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Starting in the 2004 model year, the National Prior NCAP Program and the TREAD Act Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) improved the rollover resistance ratings in its New NHTSA’s NCAP program has been publishing Car Assessment Program (NCAP) consumer comparative consumer information on frontal information by adding a dynamic maneuver test. crashworthiness of new vehicles since 1979, on side NHTSA had provided rollover resistance ratings in crashworthiness since 1997, and on rollover the 2001 – 2003 model years based solely on the resistance since January 2001. Static Stability Factor (SSF) measurement of vehicles. The ratings express the risk of a vehicle The 2001-2003 NCAP rollover resistance ratings rolling over in the event of a single vehicle crash, the were based on the Static Stability Factor (SSF) of a type of crash in which most rollovers occur. The vehicle, which is the ratio of one half its track width SSF, which is determined by a vehicle’s center of to its center of gravity (C.G.) height. After an gravity height and track width, had proved to be a evaluation of some driving maneuver tests in 1997 powerful predictor of rollover risk based on a linear and 1998, NHTSA chose to use SSF instead of any regression study of rollover rates of 100 vehicle driving maneuvers to characterize rollover resistance. models in 224,000 single vehicle crashes (R2 = 0.88). NHTSA chose SSF as the basis of NCAP ratings bec