Developer Notes 2/23/20

A recap of the meetings held on Sunday, Februrary 23rd

Team Meeting

On Sunday, Honor and I met with our client, Mike Flamm, to discuss the step-by-step process a crash analyst takes when working on a case. The meeting was recorded by Honor, and I took notes for the other teammates to review.

Summary

During the meeting, Mike provided us the data from one car involved in a two car crash. He walked us through each page of the data, explaining what he sees as most important when he is working a crash. He also showed us the relevant equations used on each of the data points and how to find which of the many time-stamped values to use. Finally, he showed us the eventual product of our calculations - a crash scene reconstruction. He even used real-life examples to show how these reconstructions can be vital to criminal cases.

Takeaways

Here are the most important takeaways from our meeting:

• The bare bones of what Mike wants in this application are:
  • Can we read in the accelerometer data?
  • Can we identify the delta v’s for the maximum lateral AND maximum longitudinal points in time?
  • Can we calculate the total delta v for every point in time?
  • Can we display data in both g’s and mph?