This book introduces a range of new network and system technologies for vehicle safety, entertainment and comfort systems currently being researched and developed. In addition, the authors provide an insight into the background of technical developments, discussing the potential benefits, costs and risks. Furthermore, the book discusses the concepts related to the application of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, offering in-depth explanations of the new applications, network and system technologies, which are valuable for the engineer developing such systems and the research expert alike.

The book covers all aspects from distributed information handling, situation assessment, security, privacy, system management up to algorithms for driver assistance and vehicle control systems. Beyond technology, the book also addresses economic, organisational and political challenges. Often overlooked, their influence on the success of automotive internetworking is just as important.

Key Features:

• Presents a comprehensive top-down approach to the newly evolving car-to-X communications networking
• Provides a broad overview of all relevant C2X communication topics
• Written by well known experts in the field
• Predicts the outlook of the evolvement of inter-vehicle communications in the next decades
• Includes illustrations and high-level technical sketches of application domains and photographs, 3D renderings and professional graphical sketches of current prototypes