Navigationsgeräte als Datenbasis für Fahrerassistenzsysteme

Progress in the areas of active and passive safety has helped to contribute to a 64 per cent drop in the total number of road deaths since 1970. Close scrutiny of the accident statistics does however reveal that efforts to increase road safety have met with only limited success on roads outside built-up areas. This report describes the concept developed by Volkswagen researchers in conjunction with the Faculty of Automotive Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and the Fraunhofer-Institut für Informations- und Datenverarbeitung (IITB) at Karlsruhe for reducing the number of accidents on such roads with the aid of navigation systems, digitized road maps and a route forecast based on these.