Car-to-car communication aims at increased driving comfort and safety. Moreover, it changes the role of vehicles from mere transportation means to “smart objects”. Despite many R&D activities in the last years, this technology still poses multiple challenges on the wireless transmission and network protocols. Aspects like efficient message dissemination, network scalability, and information sec...

This paper presents a viability study on autonomous car driving in highways using low cost sensors for envi-

Because of the mobile Internet revolution the manual use of smartphones while driving increases, which causes distraction from driving. Therefore, an intuitive in-car speech interface to the Internet is crucial. In this paper we present an in-car speech dialog system prototype which allows the user to access several Internet services by speech. In order to reduce driver distraction the system i...

The techniques and the technologies supporting Automatic Vehicle Guidance are an important issue. Automobile manufacturers view automatic driving as a very interesting product with motivating key features which allow improvement of the safety of the car, reducing emission or fuel consumption or optimizing driver comfort during long journeys. Car racing is an active research field where new adva...