Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communication for Enhanced Integrated Safety

Passive safety systems are reaching a limit in improving vehicle safety. Fundamental enhancement of passenger protection can only be obtained by including predictive, active safety systems. This field of development is termed integrated safety. A central step to tap the full potential of integrated safety is the expansion of this topic by vehicle-to-vehicle communication. The paper discusses the embedding of applications using vehicle-to-vehicle communication into an enhanced integrated safety concept. The main objective is to increase vehicle safety by using a proactive sensor which exceeds the physical limits of existing sensors and augments the context information for the driver. The development process is designed by including impartial and subjective characteristics and evaluations. The impartial part consists of, e.g., accident research, simulations and trial runs. The subjective part covers experiments with probands who have to evaluate the new safety concept with the upgraded information context for the driver, for example acceptance tests or human machine interface development. In addition to presenting the methodical development this paper discusses a first implementation of this method using as example the vehicle-to-vehicle communication. Expected results are rules and standards for the development of new enhanced integrated safety concepts in the future. The paper highlights the basic necessity of new methods for developing safety concepts in the course of technological change of integrated safety. The full text of this paper may be found at: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv21/09-0391.pdf For the covering abstract see ITRD E145407.

• Authors:
  • KRATZSCH, C
  • KROEMKER, H
• Publication Date: 2009

Language

• English

Media Info

• Serial:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST (ESV) INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE ON THE ENHANCED SAFETY OF VEHICLES, HELD JUNE 2009, STUTTGART, GERMANY
  • Publisher: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Active safety systems; Advanced vehicle control systems; Conferences; Crashes; Driver information systems; Drivers; Sensors; Simulation; Vehicle safety
• ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 1462: Active safety system; 8525: Conference; 1772: Driver; 8763: Driver information; 6120: Sensor; 9103: Simulation
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01336660
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: TRL
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Apr 15 2011 4:18PM