Variable Dynamic Testbed Vehicle (VDTV): Functional Requirements

摘要

The Variable Dynamic Testbed Vehicle (VDTV) systems objective is to support the211u001eNational Highway Traffic Safety Administrations (NHTSAs) crash avoidance 211u001eresearch. NHTSAs Office of Crash Avoidance Research (OCAR) is the sponsor of this 211u001eeffort. To accomplish this, the vehicle must have two possibly divergent 211u001ecapabilities: (1) dynamic performance which ranges, when compared to performance 211u001eof production vehicle, from low to high, and (2) characteristics of a production 211u001ecar. To permit research to investigate bounds of dynamic performance, the VDTVs 211u001edynamic performance must exceed that of normal production vehicles. To permit 211u001einvestigation of human factors on crash avoidance maneuvers and technology, the 211u001eVDTV must offer an environment similar to that of production vehicles.