Patent ID: 8915738

Claim:
A training method for evaluating driver performance relative to a standard set by other fully trained drivers comprising: using a vehicle-mounted camera system to generate a first data stream of driver action sequences representing sequences of driver head position changes and eye gaze direction changes made by a driver during the performance of a series of specific pre-defined vehicle maneuvers; using a system of vehicle mounted sensors to generate a second data stream representing the series of specific pre-defined maneuvers; using a processor to produce a score for each driver action sequence correlated to a specific driver-initiated vehicle maneuver from the second data stream as measured against a data set representing ideal driver action sequences, the ideal driver action sequences determined from monitoring different, fully trained drivers performing the same maneuver in an ideal fashion and recording corresponding head position change and eye gaze direction change data from said drivers; and adjusting each score based on a comparison of the times required by the driver to perform said head position and eye gaze direction actions in each scored sequence relative to a timing standard so as to provide a total numerical score for an evaluator to compare to the driver's previous scores to determine the extent to which a driver under examination is progressing.