
For example, a company that owns a vehicle may say that they are not going to do a lube change while the subassembly provider responsible for the vehicle may insist that the lube change take place. There are times that different maintenance workers on a vehicle will disagree about maintenance issues. This section of an HVE analysis will look at how a car or truck was manufactured and whether or not it was given the regular maintenance and proper inspection needed to ensure that it was a safe vehicle for operation. This encompasses all equipment and the design of that equipment. The HVE system will look at a driver’s fitness and evaluate whether a carrier or owner and operator of the equipment maintained good care of the vehicle.Īs well, there is a “vehicle” element to the HVE analysis.

HVE also considers a driver’s training and adherence to traffic rules. The HVE software also evaluates a car’s acceleration and deceleration patterns prior to a crash and the operation control inputs like steering and breaking.

The “human” element of HVE has to do with all driver-related factors in an automobile accident.These include things like speed, awareness, distraction, intoxication, and other factors that could cause an accident to occur.

With this software, insurance companies and lawyers are able to take a look at how an accident happened and determine what factors are most to blame. Gary Jernigan, P.E., the Vice President of Mechanical Engineering at System Engineering and Laboratories (S.E.A.L.) says that HVE has the ability to clarify situations in accident reconstruction and analyses. This technological and analytical breakthrough is often praised as one of the best tools to come along in the past 20 years. HVE stands for Human Vehicle Environmental computer analysis and simulation software.
