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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2004
Christopher L. Oesterling, Troy, MI (US);
Nathan D. Ampunan, Novi, MI (US);
Thomas A. Gawlik, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Brent W. Fetherolf, Royal Oak, MI (US);
Craig A. Brown, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Brad Wisniewski, Clarkston, MI (US);
Douglas H. Devries, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Christopher L. Oesterling, Troy, MI (US);
Nathan D. Ampunan, Novi, MI (US);
Thomas A. Gawlik, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Brent W. Fetherolf, Royal Oak, MI (US);
Craig A. Brown, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Brad Wisniewski, Clarkston, MI (US);
Douglas H. Devries, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A system and method for vehicle design and manufacture. The method includes designing a vehicle, building a pilot vehicle of the designed vehicle, installing a telematics units in the pilot vehicle, configuring the telematics unit to monitor systems of the pilot vehicle during vehicle operation, operating the pilot vehicle in a captured test fleet, obtaining data from the telematics unit during the operating in a captured test fleet, altering vehicle design data in response to the obtained data and, building a production vehicle with the design influenced by the altered vehicle design data.