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Mobilitetscenter has developed a new assessment tool, DriveCap, for clinical use in driving-related medical assessments of both cognitive and motor skills. The development was carried out in collaboration with Braun Ability and StageIT, partially funded by the Swedish Transport Administration’s Road Sign Fund for traffic safety projects. The idea for the product emerged from a dedicated team at Mobilitetscenter who used the Static Assessment Rig (SAR) for many years as a model. However, SAR is no longer produced and has not been updated for some time. The new tool, DriveCap, provides a toolkit with exercises testing cognitive and motor skills, such as attention, reaction time, information processing, visual scanning, and control handling.

DriveCap combines a new product with an adaptation of an existing one for a new application. The hardware’s original version, DTS, is marketed by Braun Ability and has primarily been used to plan adaptation equipment for drivers with mobility impairments. The transformation into DriveCap involved updating and supplementing the hardware and developing entirely new software, created by StageIT based on Mobilitetscenter’s specifications from years of SAR use. This new product significantly expands its use in driving-related medical assessments.

The prototype, developed with support from the Road Sign Fund, is currently being tested at Mobilitetscenter. To continue its development into a commercially available product, DriveCap will undergo scientific evaluation in collaboration with the University of Gothenburg’s Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Section for Health and Rehabilitation. This evaluation project is partly funded by Vinnova/Medtech4Health.

The project’s goal is to carry out a scientific trial of DriveCap to ensure objective and accurate driving ability assessments. The aim is to develop DriveCap into a future commercial product available at a reasonable price for clinical use across Sweden and other countries.

DriveCap will bring high credibility to driving-related medical assessments for those tested, as all components are conducted in a driving environment. It will also ensure high reliability for the assessment, as results will be based on scientific evaluation. For many practices, DriveCap will enhance driving-related medical assessments, as similar tools were not previously available. Upon project completion, DriveCap will be evaluated for validity, reliability, and benchmarked with normative data for individuals without injury or illness, as well as result-based threshold values.