Guidelines and some developments for a new modular driver information system

Abstract

Several driver information and traffic monitoring systems have been investigated in the past: CACS in Japan and ALI in Germany. Future systems must be designed modular: The finest step is an autonomous navigation system; the second, step includes some fairly cheap infrastructure with steady-state information transmitted to cars; the third step makes this information dynamic, i.e. traffic-dependent. VOLKSWAGEN and SIEMENS have built demonstrating equipment in Wolfsburg.