Abstract
Increasing road traffic safety is a major objective of governments across the world. In particular, the EuropeanUnion (EU) has set a challenging objective of halving the number of road accident victims by 2010 [1]. Active on-board safety features offer an approach with a high potential for achieving this target. It has been observed over the past decades that the decrease in the number of victims is related to technological innovations of the automotive safety, such as seatbelts, anti-lock braking system (ABS), airbags or electronic stability programme (ESP), as shown in Fig. 1.1 (data source: ADAC). Future generations of active safety equipment will be based on the advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) including e.g. adaptive-cruise control (ACC), lane-change assistant, collision avoidance systems and parking aids. Implementation of these systems can considerably reduce the number of road accidents and mitigate the consequences. However, the low integration level and high cost of the commercially available modules to date, hamper the mass volume integration and standardization of these systems. Thus, there are research efforts, supported by the EU [2], to develop low-cost driver assistance systems that could be suitable also for low-budget cars.
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Issakov, V. (2010). Introduction. In: Microwave Circuits for 24 GHz Automotive Radar in Silicon-based Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13598-9_1
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