Case study · coach frontal with offset
Fleet risk unit, eastern seaboard
A coach with a shallow offset into a stationary lorry produced dummy-like channel noise from an aftermarket sensor bay. Occupant Kinematics students mapped likely torso paths and then discarded two channels after showing the mount had rotated. The remaining record supported a lower longitudinal load than the first vendor report.
The reservation, recorded in their own debrief: the studio still lacked a coach-specific stiffness family, so the longitudinal band stayed wide. They did not invent a tighter one for the insurer. That refusal, they wrote, was the most expensive-looking part of the report and the most honest.