A study of self-reliant cornering speed control system

Abstract

A major cause of accidents during cornering is the excessive vehicle speed due to the driver's incorrect recognition or misjudgement of the curvature of the road, the vehicle performance and the road conditions. We are now studying a self-reliant cornering vehicle speed control system without using outside facilities along the road. This paper presents the base technology of such a system which predicts the curvature of the oncoming road based on the map information from the car navigation system which has already been installed in production vehicles in Japan.<>