SAE J287-2016 PDF

Scope: This recommended practice describes boundaries of hand control locations that can be reached by a percentage of different US driver populations in passenger cars@ multi-purpose passenger vehicles@ and light trucks (Class A vehicles). This practice is not applicable to heavy trucks (Class B vehicles). Introduction The description of driver hand control reach envelopes was developed using data acquired from test subjects performing reach tasks in test fixtures simulating a range of actual vehicle configurations [Hammond and Roe@ 1972; Hammond@ et al@ 1975]. The test subjects included equal numbers of men and women selected to represent the (United States) driving population on the basis of stature and age@ and were tested both with and without an upper torso three-point restraint (the torso restraint was a diagonal non-extending shoulder strap attached separately to the lap belt; it was not a continuous loop system). The envelopes constructed using the non-extending shoulder and lap belt are meant to define a restrained hand reach@ and the envelopes constructed using the lap belt only describe an unrestrained hand reach. The hand reach envelopes are three-dimensional surfaces described in table form and can be referenced to a particular vehicle seating configuration as described in Sections 5 and 6. The tables contained in this practice describe the boundaries to which at least 95% of US drivers can reach@ based on the underlying data.

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