Future smart cars for Road Safety with Intelligent Information Systems

Intelligent Information Systems is a profitable item in modern cars to improve road safety. Information systems in modern cars and also presents trend information system in the near future. 

Road safety is the most important issue. While the World Health Organization reported that "Worldwide, an estimated 1.2 million people were killed in road crashes each year and as many as 50 million injured.

Trend of Information Systems in a Modern Car.

Several years to come to Car Communication
The system has possibilities that can significantly improve road safety. Actually the basic principle that the cars communicate with each other on the street, so that information such as road conditions, traffic signals, traffic volume, weather conditions, road accidents and car sangaatlah required. The data will be shared and exchanged damage from car to car or infrastructure nearby.

This system controls the information coming from the car and relay the traffic lights to control the flow of traffic and in turn significantly improves the performance of the traffic flow at intersections. The automaker is also the subject of participants and contributors to push the car forward to car communication to the public. You should know that the Volvo had considered this concept and described principle as the car of the future "Talking cars". For example, if two cars will collide head on but driver does not react or try to avoid the danger, the two cars communicate with each other and then fight the bull by its own. Study on Car to Car Communication by BMW, disclosed by the Vice President of Engineering, BMW, saying that progress in a particular system would be excellent. The ideas of this system is that the car can alert the driver situation ahead and follow protocols for electronic stable situation if necessary.

Mercedas-Benz has been developing a particularly interesting system based on ad-hoc networking principles and the availability of position information. Today, cars and infrastructures have the ability to communicate with each other. In some countries, for example Singapore, the ERP System (Electronic Road Pricing) was implemented in 1998 to attract attention to drivers who have not paid for a parking ticket or have passed though a highway toll illegally where the ERP sensors are deployed. Also, the Singapore Government has implemented “Green” technologies to current and forthcoming systems. This approach is based on car to car communication but includes energy efficient lighting for traffic and street lights, recycled materials for road pavement construction, and construction methods that minimizes the impact on the environment.

Intelligent Traffic Signs in Thailand provides real time travel information to the people who are travelling on the roads in Bangkok. Detector Camera and Occupancy Ratio (OR) techniques are used to calculate and determine the density of the ahead route. The information is shown on a screen next to or over the road, and also on the website BKKTraffic.com. However, this system does not communicate with cars on the road at the moment which is an interesting possibility for development in the future.

Car to car communication systems seem to be the next big technology but at the same time a challenging one for developers. They need a wide range of information from many different sources. The management of the whole system must be carefully control. The common language used to communicate between cars or between infrastructures to cars must be advanced and reliable as many lives will depend on it daily. The communication protocols of this concept system must be taken into consideration too.

It can be clearly seen that, today, Information Systems play a significant role toward road safety. However, systems are only in some mass produced vehicles and not found widespread among the driving community at this time. There should be a thrust forward by the next generation of car manufacturer, researcher, Government and so on to respond to the developments, management and improvements of effective systems to support those significant systems with modern cars and fulfill their potential referring to road safety in our modern life styles. Other suggestions from this paper are; the systems should be able to communicate and share information between car to car and to relevant infrastructures. Secondly, the authority should agree on a common language between system to system and protocols. Thirdly, the developed system should be able to link to other systems or technology already in everyday use. Finally, the systems should assist in harmony when driving and not disturb one during drving. These are the major challenging issues when trying to improve the ergonomics safety of tomorrow’s cars. 

Source : Intelligent Information Systems in Modern Cars: The Future of Road Safety by Nattavee Utakrit