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Enhancing Driver Safety During Severe Weather Conditions
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2019-11-30
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Edition:Final Report Oct 2014 – Nov 2019
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Abstract:The objective of this project was to reduce vehicle crashes, fatalities and injuries due to adverse weather conditions, by alerting drivers in real-time of potentially hazardous road conditions in the region, based on information from neighboring vehicles. The concept was demonstrated through a working prototype of a vehicular network using the connected vehicles technology to increase driver safety. The project consisted of eight tasks which were all completed successfully. We evaluated a number of vendors for purchase of the vehicular networking hardware and finally decided to buy the equipment from Arada Systems. A vehicle interface was programmed with the latest available source-code and pre-built binary to translate known messages on the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus in a vehicle. Data was captured from the two vehicles owned by the Center for Intelligent Transportation; the data were transferred to laptops using Bluetooth. It was found that additional information from the vehicle control system would benefit the situational awareness in our system and we have been in contact with Ford Motor Company to obtain access to proprietary codes needed to obtain traction control and anything else that will enhance the system. We developed algorithms to take into account the hazardous condition encountered by drivers and alerting neighboring drivers of such hazardous conditions.
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