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Future intelligent cars escape accidents and traffic jams
10.06.2008
Intelligent vehicle safety systems and services that enhance traffic safety will soon be a reality. So-called cooperative driving systems, where cars and traffic management centres communicate with one another will be deployed during the next decade. Thanks to technology innovations, accidents will be almost completely avoidable in the future. VTT takes lead in a European field experiment with over 3000 drivers to test the use of personal navigators and smart phones to raise driver situation awareness in promoting safe and sustainable traffic.
Navigators and smart phones enable safer and smoother driving
VTT
Technical Research Centre of Finland has been selected to head a significant
EUR 15 million European traffic ICT project. The project will research and try
out future interactive traffic services that will become part of vehicle
systems within approximately five years. So-called cooperative driving, where
cars and traffic services communicate with one another, will become reality in
the near future. In addition, the project will also investigate how on-line
targeted traffic information can improve the safety and smoothness of driving
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information
Volvo and VTT develop a new
method for monitoring driver status
The vehicle control
system adapts to different driving conditions, enhancing road safety
Volvo
and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have developed a new method for
monitoring driver status, which adapts the vehicle control system according to
the driver, vehicle, or traffic status. The method is based on an assessment
of the driver's eye direction and behaviour. Both road safety and driver
comfort are increased as the method protects the driver from distractions,
such as warnings about the level of windscreen washing fluid or in-coming
phone calls, when traffic conditions require the driver to be particularly
alert and focused. The project also included testing a solution where a mobile
phone functions as an integrated part of the vehicle interface.
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information
Photos:
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The cabin of a truck with the driver status monitoring camera system installed.
2
The system being tested in Spain using a SEAT.
VTT
and the European car industry are developing a new traffic detection system
Safer
intersection driving and more smoothly flowing traffic
VTT
is developing a new environment detection system for intersection driving
together with the European car industry and research institutes. The aim of
the system - based on stereo vision, laser scanning and radar-based techniques
- is to considerably reduce accidents occurring in intersection areas and to
improve smooth traffic flow. The system will be tested in practice after a
couple of years in Germany and Sweden.
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information
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A
device developed by VTT measures the exhaust emissions of passing vehicles
with precision
A
mobile guide service for mobile phones developed by VTT in Finland
Traffic
technology poised to move to the next level
Heavy-duty
vehicle test facility at VTT is an excellent tool for determining the effect
of traffic environment on emissions and energy use of heavy vehicles
Developing
intelligent safety technologies for future traffic
Future
vehicles see and talk
Heavy-duty
vehicle test facility at VTT
Rapid
traffic emissions measurement technology