The main contribution of this paper is to develop an experimental platform in order to test some event-based control strategies. Contrary to the time-triggered fashion which calculates the control signal at each sampling time, an event-driven controller updates the control signal only when required. This theoretically allows to reduce the computational cost. In this paper, we propose to firstly test an asynchronous cruise control mechanism. Some first results clearly show a noticeable reduction of the mean control computation cost, which is really encouraging for developing such a platform.