This chapter describes the difficulties of developing an intelligent autonomous car that can drive itself through the current traffic environment. Such systems will not appear for a long time although they may be introduced sooner if the traffic environment is greatly constrained. More viable for the medium term are semi-autonomous systems where the driver maintains responsibility for the overall control of the car. Examples of this type of system are autonomous intelligent cruise control, lane support and collision warning. For each of these examples, the benefits and the likely technologies are described and results shown from demonstrators under development at Lucas.
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