| Global market review of driver assistance | | | | excellent value for money and an overview of |
| systems - forecasts to 2017 | | | | the very latest technologies in this rapidly growing |
| | | | | sector. |
| Research has shown that driver error is one of | | | | |
| the most common causes of traffic accidents. | | | | In this fifth-edition, just-auto reviews the key |
| Almost one in five accidents with physical injuries | | | | market drivers for driver assistance systems, and |
| can be attributed either to inappropriate speed | | | | updates the market analysis. Following our market |
| (16%) or to insufficient stopping distance (12%). | | | | overview in Chapter 1 Introduction,product |
| Inattentiveness behind the wheel or inadequate | | | | fitment forecasts in Chapter 2 The Market, |
| stopping distance contributes to this. Electronic | | | | predict in some detail how the driver assistance |
| driver assistance systems are increasingly being | | | | market will evolve mainly in Europe and Japan |
| incorporated in cars across the board, from luxury | | | | from 2006 through to 2017. |
| vehicles to small city cars. Many of these | | | | |
| systems are being fitted as standard equipment. | | | | Data includes volume and market value for |
| The impact of these technologies is helping to | | | | adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning |
| avoid accidents and take the stress and strain out | | | | systems, and parking assistance systems. |
| of driving. ( ) | | | | |
| | | | | This chapter provides interviews with |
| Driver assistance technologies are evolving | | | | Continental, Denso, TRW, plus two major suppliers |
| rapidly. Executives at Continental report that | | | | of digital map data and content, namely Navteq |
| demand for their products is very promising at | | | | and Tele Atlas. |
| the moment. They told just-auto: "It can be | | | | |
| expected that the current applications, such as | | | | Chapter 3 Technical review |
| lane departure warning, speed limit monitoring, and | | | | In this chapter, we consider adaptive cruise |
| intelligent headlamp control and object detection | | | | control, blind spot detection systems, lane |
| will settle down over the next years and migrate | | | | departure warning systems, speed limit monitoring |
| to a variety of vehicles. Of course, on the horizon | | | | systems, parking assistance systems, night vision |
| we see innovations such as pedestrian recognition | | | | systems, and intelligent lighting. Vehicles equipped |
| as a logical evolution of the camera technology | | | | with these driver assistance system features |
| today." | | | | could detect potential accident situations, provide |
| | | | | warnings or automatically engage a vehicle's |
| At 3,000 words longer than our last edition, with | | | | brakes to maintain a pre-set distance between |
| fully updated market data and six lengthy | | | | vehicles. |
| interviews with key suppliers, this report provides | | | | |