Indoor Vehicle Braking Simulation: Correlation and Comparison with Road Testing

The paper briefly reviews the principle of a dynamometer that permits laboratory simulation of the road behavior of an actual passenger car, under all conditions. Also presented are the results obtained with United States Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 105 on a passenger car making both road and simulator tests. These results show an excellent correlation with road testing. Furthermore, a comparison with road testing allows us to state that a better quality of testing is obtained with the simulator test bench.