Intelligent Vehicle Our society is awash in “machine intelligence” of various kinds
Over the last century, we have witnessed more and more of the “drudgery” of daily living being replaced by devices such as washing machines
One remaining area of both drudgery and danger, however, is the daily act ofdriving automobiles
2million people were killed in traffic crashes in 2002, which was 2
1% of all globaldeaths and the 11th ranked cause of death
If this trend continues, an estimated 8
5 million people will be dying every year in road crashes by 2020
in fact, the U
Department of Transportation has estimated the overall societal cost of road crashes annually in the United States at greater than $230 billion
when hundreds or thousands of vehicles are sharing the same roads at the same