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In-vehicle safety system from TRL

A sophisticated system to evaluate in-vehicle safety has been developed by the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) in the UK. The protocol is based around four key categories of assessment: Relevance, Deployment, Usability and Resilience. A product is scored in each category with an overall score determined to allow a TRL recommendation status to be given to the product. The evaluation protocol can be used to provide independent support for the claimed benefits of the evaluated product and/or to provide exp
August 19, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
A sophisticated system to evaluate in-vehicle safety has been developed by the Transport Research Laboratory (777 TRL) in the UK. The protocol is based around four key categories of assessment: Relevance, Deployment, Usability and Resilience. A product is scored in each category with an overall score determined to allow a TRL recommendation status to be given to the product. The evaluation protocol can be used to provide independent support for the claimed benefits of the evaluated product and/or to provide expert insights into ways in which a product may be improved to enhance its potential safety benefit and usability.

The first product to be subjected to this protocol was the ‘Driver Protection Application’ – a smartphone app developed by Romex that limits smartphone functionality when a vehicle is in motion, which achieved a TRL Highly Recommended status.

This system ensures that new technologies can be properly evaluated and that any claims made for their benefits substantiated.

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