Inventors:
Christopher Oesterling - Troy MI, US
Nathan Ampunan - Novi MI, US
Thomas Gawlik - Rochester Hills MI, US
Brent Fetherolf - Royal Oak MI, US
Craig Brown - Ann Arbor MI, US
Brad Wisniewski - Clarkston MI, US
Douglas Devries - Ann Arbor MI, US
Assignee:
GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION - Detroit MI
International Classification:
G06Q 30/00, G01M 17/00, G06Q 99/00, G06F 17/40
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.