METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EMERGENCY BRAKING PERFORMANCE TESTING, EVALUATION AND/OR DRIVER TRAINING

摘要

The present invention relates to testing and evaluation of motorised wheeled vehicles and in particular, the evaluation of drivers of motorised wheeled vehicles including a system for evaluation of driver braking performance, comprising: a driver measuring unit including a force measuring means and a communication means, the driver measuring unit being adapted for attachment to a road vehicle brake applicator interface and being operative to generate force measurement data representative of force applied by the driver to the brake applicator during an evaluation period and transmit the force measurement data using the communications means; a vehicle measuring unit, in use carried by the vehicle, having a motion measuring means adapted to determine vehicle measurements comprising one or more of the vehicle acceleration, velocity and position, and a communication means, the vehicle measuring means being operative to generate vehicle measurement data during an evaluation period and transmit the vehicle measurement data using the communications means; and a processor unit having a display screen, and communications means, wherein the processor unit is operative to receive via the communications means the force measurement data generated by the driver measuring unit and the vehicle measurement data generated by the vehicle measuring unit, and generate brake test result metrics therefrom for display on the display screen.