Collision Avoidance Using Inter-Vehicle Ad-hoc Communication

The automobile industry is experiencing an exponential rise indemand, but its sustainability is an issue due to the dynamicnature of the market and environmental conditions. This paperdeals with the development of a system dynamic model tosimulate Indian automobile market dynamics. The focus of thepaper is to study the influence of three major dynamic factorsviz., accidents, ease of use, durability. The model has been usedto simulate the influence of these dynamic factors for a quarterof a century. As sustainability of the automobile industry isdependent to a great extent on these factors, the study resultprojects the future scenario. The result obtained would providesignificant leads to the manufacturers of automobile andinfrastructure providers, as it studies the cumulative effect of thecritical factors. Even though the result is at the project level, theconcept can be extended further, to provide efficient way forautomotive control.Automotive engine control systems must satisfy diverse andoften conflicting requirements. These include regulating to meetincreasingly stringent standards without sacrificing gooddrivability to satisfy customer desires and to comply withregulations and delivering these performance objectives at lowcost with the minimum set of sensors and actuators. Thedramatic evolution in vehicle electronic control systems over thepast two decades is substantially in response to theserequirements. It is the capacity and flexibility of microprocessorbased digital control systems, introduced in 1970’s to addressthe problem of automotive control which have resulted in theimproved function and added convenience, safety andperformance features that distinguish the modern automobile.