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don't worry this isn't a real car it's
actually used to make your car safer
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every new model of car is more advanced
and theoretically safer than the last a
whole host of engineers designers and
technicians toiled to incorporate
technologies in your car that helped
prevent injuries or collisions
altogether blind spot detection
automatic Lane changing automatic
braking these advanced driver assistance
systems or a das are common in almost
all modern cars today this technology is
designed to keep drivers safe even if
they didn't realize they were in danger
that requires a lot of faith on behalf
of the driver in systems most have never
seen work in person how much should we
trust these technologies and how do we
know they'll work when the time comes
this is the guided soft Target or GST it
looks like a normal car it has the shape
of your standard sedan and even has
reflective lights in license plate most
importantly it has the radar signature
of a regular car which means to an
advanced driver assist system the GST is
indistinguishable from the real thing
this also means you don't need to risk
crashing a real car to prove that driver
assistance technology works
the experts at AV dynamics spoke to us
about how this dummy soft car is ideal
for use in development and testing the
advantage of using the GST is that if
the system fails to respond and work as
planned then in the event of a collision
rather than there being major damage to
the test vehicle there's there's no
damage it's just a question of
rebuilding the phone car body and
running the test minister
you use a GST to safely create dangerous
scenarios and a test track and you can
do it repeatedly and fully synchronized
with our in car driving robots we run
these tests using half fallin control
for robot controlled vehicles you can
guarantee that the car stays exactly in
the lane and follows the ESP with very
high precision we also control the
distance between the cars we know the
position of every vehicle via a accurate
GPS and we can accurately measure the
relative distances between vehicles so
that we can control the vehicles to be
on precise collision paths as required
by these pests this GST is being used in
a car to car braking scenario to test
the automatic emergency braking system
in the chase car both cars are set to 50
km/h or 31 miles per hour with a
distance between them of 12 meters or
around 39 feet at some point the GST
will stop suddenly replicating an
emergency stop an inattentive driver
failing to notice this would fail to
brake resulting in a serious crash it's
the job of the automatic emergency
braking system to take notice of the
stop car and apply the brakes if the
driver does not immediately after the
test both cars are restored to their
original position by robots to run the
same tests again and in quick succession
automotive manufacturers will typically
embark on an R&D campaign for each
feature or set of features and this will
involve each day repeating a test a
dozen times to refine the system a B
dynamics says the GST is used by most of
the world's major car developers in both
development and testing the GST is an
indispensable tool for nearly every
major automotive manufacturer around the
world and the need to safely test and
develop their a Dass and autonomous
systems the gist is also
valuables is used for urine cap test
houses urine cap is the new European new
car assessment program the test houses
use the GST to test and rate the active
safety features of new vehicles
according to the most recent year end
cap specification and so far we've sold
70 G STS world white other parties look
to a/b dynamics to test their tech to
companies with proprietary a das
technology to sell to car manufacturers
also live and die by rigorous testing
with the GST before you ever use the
automated features in your car the
technology may have been tested hundreds
of times by the GST
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