IVBSS First Annual Report

Posted 10/22/2007
NHTSA publishes IVBSS First Annual Report

The Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems (IVBSS) program, led by UMTRI, aims to prevent crashes by developing in-vehicle technologies that help drivers avoid making hazardous mistakes. Details of the first year of the program are now available in the recently released report, Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems First Annual Report.

The report details a set of fully-integrated crash-warning subsystems:

Lateral-drift warning (LDW), which warns drivers that they may inadvertently be drifting from their lane or the roadway.
Forward-crash warning (FCW), which provides warnings to drivers to assist them in avoiding or mitigating rear-end crashes with other vehicles.
Lane change-merge (LCM) warning, which includes full-time, side-object-presence indicators, as well as warnings of possible unsafe maneuvers based on adjacent or approaching vehicles in adjacent lanes.
Curve-speed warning (CSW), which warns drivers that they may be driving too fast into an upcoming curve (implemented on the light-vehicle platform only).

For additional details about IVBSS: