Description
Short technical description: INRETS uses instrumented cars for several objectives: - environmental objectives : to know the real use of passenger-cars, buses, trucks, delivery vans….by the use of black boxes with many sensors to monitor all the parameters (speed, lenght of distance, cold start – very important for pollutant emission and fuel consumption, …). These results permit to establish real driving cycles to compare and evaluate technologies possibilités to reduce pollutioon and fuel consumption - ergonomic objectives : to evaluate the quality and the real impact of new systems to help the driver (guidance screen, vocal information, ….) - safety objectives : to evaluate the real impact of new technologies on the driving behaviour (as ABS, or ESP ,…or ITS systems) and to test the dynamic behaviour of the vehicle-driver interaction. - safety objectives : to test the quality of automatic driving help (automatic braking , detection of vehicles in front,…) and the response of the drivers (physiological parameters). For these experiments, two strategies are applied: some vehicles have a very important equipment and they are specific for one study, and on the other hand, for studies on the real use of vehicles, mobile black boxes that one transfers from one vehicle to another vehicle. Many experiments are made in cooperation with carmakers, european laboratories and local or national authorities. Relevant standards: Financing of the facility: Financing of these infrastructures is obtained through a mix between grants from the government, and from industrial and european projects.
Keywords
Instrumented car, environmental, ergonomic, safety...