
27Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Having established the driver’s package, the rear passenger templates can now be
located. This enables their posture, location in relation to the driver and the space
around them to be dened.
Internal company guidelines are used in conjunction with SAE direction. Such
company guidelines are based on experience of developing vehicles in the segment,
of acceptable and preferable dimensions, and may also refer to the benchmarking
of competitor vehicles, that is, to be competitive with the existing set of competitor
vehicles, adopt the mean dimensions relating to occupant space.
At the end of this rst step in the ...