On the Assessment of Fitness to Drive: Steering and Brake Operative Forces

The Directive (EU) 2015/653 aimed at facilitating that the maximum force any disabled driver could make on vehicle’s primary controls be adjusted to their needs. technical adjustment in design requires a measurement of operational forces applied by steering and brake controls, order determine its functional capacity during execution driving manoeuvres. objective this paper is define braking operative used for fitness drive assessment drivers with physical disabilities, establish thresholds necessary current market M1 motor vehicles. A total 200 trials were performed 17 different vehicles 26 drivers. results obtained help new threshold’s criteria onto systems adapting Recommendations are given about use code 20.07 -braking- 40.01 -steering- disabilities according 2015/653.