Advanced Driver Assistance is a critical first step in a slow transition to automated (semi- or fully-) autonomous vehicles on our highways. Innovations such as collison prevention features in vehicles, and the Google Self-Driving Car have already demonstrated the possibility to improve efficiency, safety and mobility of our transportation system through driving automation. 

Advanced Driver Assistance and Autonomous Vehicles - Challenges and Opportunities to Improve Mobility and Safety - Report Coming in 2013

This future Technology Assessment paper will address the spectrum of feature sets of Advance Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), and examines how improvements in sensing and actuation systems will expand these sets to autonomous driving over the long term. It will address to challenge of driver engagement, machine perception and data management, and the evolution of sensor fusion and advance modeling of driving operations and scenarios that is required to advance driving automation.  

Finally the report will speculate on the issue of acceptance of driver assistance and driving automation on the part of the public.  New business models and public policies may need to be introduced to smooth the transition for technology companies and roadway authorities to put these concepts safely and fairly into practice.   

This report speculates on the future impact of a ADAS and Autonomous driving on the transportation sector in general, and specifically to a future Vehicle-to-Vehicle, Vehicle-to-Device, Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2X) core system relying on vehicle Dedicated Short Range Communications/Wireless Access for Vehicular Environments (WAVE), as contemplated in USDOT's Connected Vehicle R&D program.

Contacts for ITS America's Technology Scan

Steven H. Bayless, Senior Director of Telecommunications and Telematics

Adrian Guan and Radha Neelakantan, and Sean Murphy,  Transportation Program Specialists

This report is part of the Technology Scan and Assessment series. To learn more about USDOT's Connected Vehicle Research, visit USDOT ITS Joint Program Office website and read the Technology Scan and Assessment Fact Sheet.