TABLE OF CONTENTS Both the promise and the complexity of CVHS can be deduced from this rather lengthy chapter. Rather than lengthening it further, I offer that the main messages regarding CVHS offered here are the following:
CVHS can improve the performance of the entire road-vehicle system in terms of both safety and traffic performance.
After years of talk, the automotive industry and governments worldwide are now making substantial moves toward implementing vehicle-vehicle and vehicle-roadside communications.
CVHS itself is now established as the next wave of ITS.
As the Internet opened up new worlds, bringing vehicles into the connected society will open up a vast array of new services and features for vehicle owners, driven by entrepreneurial creativity and market forces. With our vehicles exchanging information and using highly accurate digital maps, our travel will be safer and more precise. The final gap in the wireless world will be bridged.
Chapters 10 and 11 examine specialized forms of CVHS. Chapter 10 relates to vehicle control in terms of fully automated vehicles, and Chapter 11 focuses on the information side to describe FCD techniques.
