Overview
An integrated countermeasure system could prevent over 48 percent of
rear-end, run-off-road, and lane change crashes. This represents
1.8 million target crashes.
Integrated Vehicle Based Safety Systems
Preventing Collisions the Smart Way.
About 3.6 million rear-end, road departure,
or lane change crashes occur each year. Of these 3.6 million, 27,500
crashes result in one or more fatalities. These fatal crashes represent about ¾ of
all fatal crashes.
The widespread deployment of advanced integrated driver assistance systems
has the potential to reduce rear-end, road departure, and lane change collisions
by 48 percent. Integrated systems will provide better hazard information
from multiple sensors and provide coordinated warnings to reduce driver distraction.
The Integrated Vehicle Based Safety Systems (IVBSS) initiative aims to demonstrate
the technologies necessary to equip all new vehicles with advanced driver
assistance systems that would help drivers avoid the most common types of
deadly crashes.
An Integrated Solution
This initiative, in partnership with the automotive industry, builds
on completed and ongoing Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI) field
operational tests as well as results from naturalistic driving studies.
It will involve projects and studies that include private passenger
vehicles and freight-carrying trucks. The IVBSS initiative
will:
- Develop information on how best to communicate warnings from an integrated
system covering multiple hazards to the driver.
- Develop objective tests and criteria for performances of systems that
simultaneously address rear-end, road departure, and lane change
crashes.
- Develop and field-test integrated vehicle-based safety systems on the
road with real drivers to understand the safety benefits of integrated
systems and driver behavior and acceptance.
This initiative is the first attempt to fully integrate the individual
solutions that address these three types of crashes. This research will combine
existing research results, state-of-the-art commercial products and system
integration efforts to develop and demonstrate an integrated solution to
these problems.
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