Keith Friedman has been involved in the field of research and development of transportation safety for over 25 years. Since graduating from Cornell University’s Engineering Physics Department, he has been a project and test engineer for Minicars, Inc., and President of Kinetic Research, Inc., MCR Technology, Inc., and now of Friedman Research Corporation. Having published over 40 research papers on the subject of improved vehicle design and automotive safety engineering, he has presented his findings at conferences in Austria, Australia, Ireland, France, Germany, Japan, and Italy as well as in the United States. He holds active membership in the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Institute of Electrical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Additionally, his work has included most kinds of automotive related tests, together with computer modeling and simulated testing, cadaver tests, as well as live subject tests. He is the author of numerous reports and safety studies for the United States Department of Transportation involving, among other things, statistical analyses of crash conditions and their relationship to injuries, effects of recent design changes on vehicle safety performance, passive restraint performance in passenger vehicles, dynamic crash testing, static crush testing and crashworthiness.