In June of 1999, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration entered into a cooperative research agreement with General Motors to advance the state-of-the-art of rear-end collision warning technology and conduct a field operational test of a fleet of passenger vehicles outfitted with a prototype rear-end collision warning system and adaptive cruise control. The goal of the research program was to demonstrate the state-of-the-art of rear-end collision warning systems and measure system performance and effectiveness using lay drivers driving on public roads in the United States. The five-year program consists of a 212 year development phase during which refinement of component technologies will continue and be integrated into a prototype test vehicle. In the three-year period of the second program phase, a fleet of ten vehicles will be constructed and outfitted with rear-end collision warning and adaptive cruise control systems and given to volunteer drivers to drive over a period of several weeks. Data collected from on-board vehicle instrumentation will be analyzed and used to estimate potential safety benefits, obtain information on the driving experiences of the volunteer drivers and their acceptance of this next-generation safety technology. The operational test will last approximately one year.
Automotive Collision Avoidance System Field Operational Test: Phase 1 Interim Report
2002
303 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation Safety , Road Transportation , Transportation , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Collision avoidance , Warning systems , Accident prevention , Field tests , Rear end collisions , Accident avoidance , Transportation safety , Driver aid systems , Warning system effectiveness , Automatic warning systems , Human factors , Data collection , System analysis , Prototypes , Research programs , Field operational tests , Forward collision warning , Adaptive cruise control