Abstract
This paper concerns research towards the provision of a rich set of road vehicle driver assistance modes to reduce the stress and improve the safety of negotiating both on-road and off-road terrain. These modes include navigation planning, potential collision warnings, blind spot and rear traffic monitoring, backing assistance, drowsiness detection and night vision enhancement. The approach taken is partially related to adapting instrumentation from autonomous and teleoperated robot navigation research; other aspects relate to human factors considerations. Progress to date is reported in detail. (Author/publisher)