Applications of inter-vehicle communications to driver assistance system

This paper proposes the application of inter-vehicle communications to advanced vehicle control and safety systems (AVCSS) such as driver assistance systems, and describes some experimental results. The inter-vehicle communications is a key technology in the AVCSS, because data on neighboring vehicles that are difficult or impossible to measure with onboard equipment can be acquired over the inter-vehicle communications. The locations of neighboring vehicles are the essential data that. be transmitted over the inter-vehicle communications in the driver assistance systems much like an intersection collision prevention system. The intervehicle communications extends the horizon of the driver and onboard sensing systems. (C) 2003 Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc. and Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.