Traffic Safety through Driver Assistance and Intelligence

Future mobility has to keep the safety level that is already achieved and shall even improve it. This paper reviews the research about driver behavior and assesses how far the work has proceeded in the field of assistance and intelligence, which includes: the vehicle’s longitudinal and transversal dynamics, the driver’s behavior in intersections, the driver’s safety-based approaching behavior, the driving dependability model for identification of traffic accident causations, and the analysis method for investigating whether every error cause a traffic accident. As a highlight, this paper introduces in enough detail the technical development of driver assistance systems in BMW, Daimler, Audi, Citroen, Lexus, VW, Opel, Peugeot, Renault, Chevrolet, Saab and Bosch. Both the contributions of research work concerning driving behavior analysis and driver assistance systems have to be aligned with a permanently updated interaction within the system of driver, vehicle and road traffic environment. © 2011, the authors.