A GPS-based slowdown warning system for automotive safety

Animesh Chakravarthy; Kyung Yeol Song; Eric Feron

A GPS-based slowdown warning system for automotive safety

Animesh Chakravarthy, Kyung Yeol Song, Eric Feron

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Abstract

We propose the concept of a slow-down warning system in automobiles. If a driver on a highway decelerates suddenly or progresses abnormally slowly (thereby posing a hazard to the vehicles behind him), then, with such a system, all the cars behind him are provided information of this, near simultaneously. This advance information gives the drivers additional time to react in preparation of the impending slow-down. Simulations demonstrate that this additional time is sufficient to alleviate collisions. Furthermore, it is seen that even if only a fraction of the cars in a platoon are equipped with such a system, this can still be sufficient to alleviate crashes even in the unequipped cars. A prototype of such a system has been developed and installed in a few cars, and road tests have been conducted to verify the hardware performance.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings
Pages	489-494
Number of pages	6
State	Published - Sep 27 2004
Externally published	Yes

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