Fast Dash

The first technology evaluation for the FMCSA’s Advanced System Testing Utilizing a Data Acquisition System on the Highway (FAST DASH) examined the performance of a Blind Spot Warning (BSW) system under normal driving conditions. Twenty-one participants were recruited from a North Carolina trucking fleet to drive their normal revenue-producing routes with 20 instrumented tractors for the six month evaluation. The first two months involved a baseline period in which the drivers received no feedback from the BSW system. The BSW system was activated for the remaining driving period. The 20 tractors were instrumented with the BSW system as well as a suite of sensors including forward radar, lateral and longitudinal accelerometers, gyro, GPS, access to the vehicle CAN, and multiple channels of compressed digital video. Collection rates for the various sensors ranged from 1Hz to 10Hz. This collection effort resulted in approximately 1,338,818 mi (2,154,619 km) vehicle miles and 13.65 Terabytes (11.46 Terabytes of video, 2.19 Terabytes of data) of driving data.