SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING AND QUANTIFYING VEHICULAR DAMAGE INFORMATION

摘要

A system and method enables nontechnical personnel to provide informati on relating to vehicle damage information via a graphical user interface of a computer system. The information provided by the user includes damaged vehicle area information, crush depth of the damaged areas information, and vehicle component- by-component damage information. This information is utilized by a .DELTA.V determination module executing on a processor to, for example, obtain respective overall vehicle damage ratings for each vehicle of two vehicles involved in a collision. The overall damage rating is obtained by applying a set of rules, based on a uniform quantification of component-by-component damage, to the subject vehicles and an identical or sister test vehicle from one or more crash tests which provide damage information.