At VTI we work to evaluate active safety systems. For example, we investigated whether vehicle manufacturers meet therequirements for ESC systems. VTI works with test methodologyboth on a test track and in our driving simulator.
Within the European research program eVALUE (testing and evaluationmethods for ICT-based safety systems) VTI worked to develop test methods for evaluation of active safety systems. eVALUE focused on the security systems available in today's vehicles, but also examined the future systems.The project was based not by how "good" specific systems were. Instead, the researchers looked at how the car reacted in specific traffic situations. Each situation represented a common accident situation in traffic. Among other things could be a security system to keep the correct file examined by creating a scenario where the vehicle inadvertently changed file or left the road. This makes it easier for car buyers and other users to understand the evaluation criteria.
When the tire must be selected, there is a need for both car owners and tiredealers to have clearer descriptions of tire use. VTI therefore works in a project whose aim is to build a foundation for being able to classify tires into various categories.This project will investigate and identify VTI what criteria should be included in the winter ratings process. This is carried out primarily with the various tests,both in the laboratory at VTI's "long path", and in test vehicles at Luleå University of Technology on some basis in real environments, mounted oncommon vehicles. Based on these tire tests are criteria that reflect the customer benefits of tire safety on different surfaces. A possible future use of the criteria would, in addition to the purely consumer enlightening, also be a steering tireclassification.
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