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We have chosen these specific system design requirements in order to test our prototype verification that reflect our user needs. Testing the energy use, hills, and load, are all essential to the needs of convenience, simplicity, reliability, and effectivity. If the prototype isn’t energy efficient then it wouldn’t be able to be used in many situations, and wouldn’t truly be useful or effective at all. It is important to test the prototype against hills and vary the load in order to test how reliable it would be in different vehicles or situations related to the prototype system that we are developing. Our design revolves around switching to electric energy as the car is idling, to reflect the user needs of accomplishing our task of reducing carbon emissions, so it is imperative that we test the stopping precision and time it takes to stop for our prototype. This will ensure our ability to map our design and plan for the specific time frames that the hybridization of the engine occurs. Since we are developing a route that is similar to the commute near the Ohio State campus, it is necessary that the prototype is tested on the circular track to simulate the turns and curves in the roads on campus.