Title: Captured test fleet
Application Number: 200480029514 Application Date: 2004.07.28
Publication Number: 1864164 Publication Date: 2006.11.15
Approval Pub. Date: Granted Pub. Date:
International Classifi-cation: G06G7/48
Applicant(s) Name: Gen Motors Corp. Address:
Inventor(s) Name: Oesterling Christopher, Ampunan Nathan D., Gawlik
Attorney & Agent: li jinglan wang zhongzhong
Abstract:
     A system and method for vehicle design and manufacture. The method includes designing a vehicle, building a pilot vehicle (110) of the designed vehicle, installing a telemetrics unit in the pilot vehicle (120), configuring the telemetrics unit to monitor systems of the pilot vehicle during vehicle operations (120), operating the pilot vehicle in a captured test fleet, altering vehicle design data in response to the obtained data and building a production vehicle with the design influenced by the altered vehicle design data (170).
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