Passive safety systems are reaching a limit in improving vehicle safety. Fundamental enhancement of passenger protection can only be obtained by including predictive, active safety systems. This field of development is termed integrated safety. A central step to tap the full potential of integrated safety is the expansion of this topic by vehicle-to-vehicle communication. The paper discusses the embedding of applications using vehicle-to-vehicle communication into an enhanced integrated safety concept. The main objective is to increase vehicle safety by using a proactive sensor which exceeds the physical limits of existing sensors and augments the context information for the driver. The development process is designed by including impartial and subjective characteristics and evaluations. The impartial part consists of, e.g., accident research, simulations and trial runs. Thesubjective part covers experiments with probands who have to evaluate thenew safety concept with the upgraded information context for the driver, for example acceptance tests or human machine interface development. In addition to presenting the methodical development this paper discusses a first implementation of this method using as example the vehicle-to-vehicle communication. Expected results are rules and standards for the developmentof new enhanced integrated safety concepts in the future. The paper highlights the basic necessity of new methods for developing safety concepts inthe course of technological change of integrated safety. The full text ofthis paper may be found at: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv21/09-0391.pdf For the covering abstract see ITRD E145407.
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