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Armed With Science: US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab

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Instrumental vehicle used in SAVE experiments. Courtesy US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab.

Instrumental vehicle used in SAVE experiments. Courtesy US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab.

Sally Shoop and Barry Coutermarsh, researcher engineers with the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab, joined Armed with Science this week to discuss the SAVE (Synthetic Automotive Virtual Environments) program.

Three times as many soldiers are killed in vehicle accidents than in combat. To get technology for accident avoidance training into the hands of our soldiers, first you have to have good models for road surfaces encountered in military operations so that the vehicle dynamics is accurate enough to respond like a real vehicle. With SAVE (Synthetic Automotive Virtual Environments) program they are building hardware and software that can teach soldiers how to control a vehicle to avoid accidents and rollovers, and save the lives of military and civilian vehicle operators.

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