Patent ID: 6553354
Filing Date: 2003-04-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for evaluating the reliability of a certain type of vehicle comprising the steps of:identifying a plurality of said vehicles of said certain type; acquiring data from each of said plurality of identified vehicles, wherein said data includes at least a first measurable metric for each of said plurality of identified vehicles and at least a second measurable metric for each of said plurality of identified vehicles; creating a graph of said data by plotting each of said first and second metrics relative to each other; forming said data into discrete percentile groupings, wherein each of said discrete percentile groupings include data from each identified vehicle which are within a certain range of said first and said second metrics; and assigning a probability of occurrence to each percentile grouping by forming curves upon said graph which connects all of said discrete percentile groupings corresponding to a unique one of said percentiles.