The Crewstation Assessment of Reach (CAR) is a design tool for determining if a candidate population of operators or individuals can achieve vision and reach accommodation within a user-defined workspace. CAR has undergone four major updates since its creation in 1976. The latest version of the CAR model, CAfi-IV, can predict female as well as male population accommodation. Numerous experimental studies have validated individual components of CAR as well as validating CAR's ability to predict population accommodation. Plans are underway to further refine CAR submodels and also to integrate CAR with a CAD graphics package to assist users in constructing and evaluating crewstation designs.
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