25 September 2009

Intelligent systems test

A thousand vehicles will go on European roads in 2010 as part of a programme to test eight different high-tech intelligent in-vehicle technologies.

The research involves 28 different organisations and is geared to assess the impact of these systems on safety, efficiency and driver comfort.

The euroFOT programme will include vehicles from various brands and will be testing systems that give warnings to the driver on potential side- and front-end collisions, as well as others such as Curve Speed Warning, Fuel Efficiency Adviser and the Human machine interaction with navigation systems.

The year-long project is expected to raise awareness and provide indications based on scientific data about real benefits of these existing intelligent in-vehicle systems.

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