TESTING, TESTING, and even more TESTING

The commercial-vehicle market is eager to adopt more ADAS and automated-driving innovations, but before those technologies get to the road, they must first pass rigorous testing practices that prove their efficacy.

When it comes to testing advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), comprehensive is the word. Hours and hours and hundreds of thousands of miles are spent testing to ensure a product is market-ready.

“To get that product to market the things that become important overall-especially from the ADAS perspective-are to make sure that the system operates properly in a variety of conditions and to make sure it's maintainable. It needs to do what it's supposed to do, and not do things that aren't expected, like giving false alerts or braking when it shouldn't,” said Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems' Fred Andersky, Director of Marketing and Customer Solutions, Controls.