ABSTRACT
In Chapter 3, we saw how to flesh in the run-out trajectory, by drawing a spline curve between the key points, and then how to subdivide the trajectory into piecewise linear segments, such that the end points on the segments were positioned on the spline curve. We even saw how to adjust certain of the end points such that they would coincide with the key points, so that calculations pertaining to such points would also pertain to the key points. In this chapter, we shall see how to perform those calculations, so that we can discover the vehicle’s motion as it exits the crash. The analysis can also be applied to the vehicle’s pre-crash motions, once we know the conditions at impact.
