DATE: Friday, 25 July 2025
TIME: 12 noon - 2pm EST (GMT-4, or 9am-11am Pacific Time)
COST: Free for NAPARS members;  $6 for non-members
ACTAR: This event has been approved by ACTAR for 2 CEUs. Accredited attendees should be prepared to sign in with i-Attend app on a phone during the presentation.

All attendees will be able to request an attendance certificate during the show.

The show will be recorded and put in the Reference Library along with various supporting material.

This presentation will introduce an alternative motorcycle crash EDR data source contained within modern rider protective apparel, the motorcyclist airbag vest. The history, construction, operation, arming criteria, and recorded data parameters of three mass-produced airbag devices will be shown along with a review of the EDR data from crash testing. A discussion of the airbag vest injury mitigation benefits and a live deployment demonstration will conclude this presentation.

TOPICS
1. Motorcyclist airbag vest technology history
2. Device anatomy, hardware, sensors, and power capacity
3. Interface and operation
4. Arming criteria
5. Deployment conditions
6. Data capabilities
7. Data parameters
8. EDR data testing/review
9. Protective benefits
10. Live demonstration deployment

Our Speaker: 

Dr. Andre Doria is the co-founder and CTO of Compass Kinetics—a motorcycle forensic consulting firm—as well as a motorcyclist training instructor. He has served as a director on the board of CA2RS and is the Director of Research & Applied Sciences at Total Control Training. As a motorcyclist, Andre’s riding spans hundreds of thousands of miles and includes street, track, and off-road riding on 3 continents. His crash reconstruction interests include motorcycle EDRs, motorcycle collision dynamics, rider behavior, and advanced photogrammetry and multimedia analysis.