An Introduction to Demo 2000: The Cooperative Driving Scenario

smooth merging, and passing. The Super Smart Vehicle System studies, conducted from 1990 to 1992 by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry, proposed cooperative driving using intervehicle communication to make traffic safe and efficient. Studies of intervehicle communication had already started in the early ’80s at JSK (the Association of Electronic Technology for Automobile Traffic and Driving), a MITI foundation, and researchers had conducted experiments on Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS) and Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) applications in the mid ’80s. The SSVS studies emphasized intervehicle communications as an essential technology for Advanced Vehicle Control and Safety Systems (AVCSS).