Hand Free Driving

                           All of us would like to drive our car with a mobile held in one hand, talking to the other person. But we should be careful; we don’t know when the car just before us applies the break and everything is gone. A serious problem encountered in most of the cities, National Highways, where any mistake means no ‘turning back’! There comes the tomorrows technology; Hand free driven car. Utilizing the modern technological approach in Robotics.

All around the world almost 45% of the accidents occur by mistakes of the driver. In some cases the driver is engaged in some other affair than driving. In USA the highways are so crowded that in some situations mistake on the part of one person on the road can lead to serious accidents. Most of these accidents are fatal. One such accident took place in the year 1997, on a foggy morning the on a heavily traffic highway a series of collisions took place in which 5 lost their life and more than 40 injured. The victims of such accidents are either severely injured, some even risk their life by their careless driving. This was the main reason behind this project work put forward by the Delphi-Delco electronic systems and General Motors Corporation. It was called the Automotive Collision Avoidance Systems (ACAS) field operation program.

It is the Automotive Collision Avoidance System (ACAS). The ACAS/FOT Program has assembled a highly focused technical activity with the goal of developing a comprehensive FCW system that is seamlessly integrated into the vehicle infrastructure.. The FCW system incorporates the combined ACC & rear-ends CW functionality. The ACC feature will only be operational when engaged by the driver. On the other hand, the FCW feature will provide full-time operating functionality whenever the host vehicle is in use (above a certain min speed). This feature is effective in detecting, assessing, and alerting the driver of potential hazard conditions associated with rear-end crash events in the forward region of the host vehicle. This is accomplished by implementing an expandable system architecture that uses a combination of: (a) a long range forward radar-based sensor that is capable of detecting and tracking vehicular traffic, and (b) a forward vision-based sensor which detects and tracks lanes. The proposed program effort is focused on providing warnings to the driver, rather than taking active control of the vehicle.

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