Blind spot warning systems solutions

This paper is a research project report in traffic safety conducted at the School of Aerospace, Automotive and Manufacturing Engineering RMIT University. The main project objective was to find and suggest efficient, cost effective solutions for the blind spot warning applications. There were two major research questions to consider. The first query was regarding the data acquisition method, i.e. how to detect a vehicle in the blind spot. Once that information is obtained, the next step is to determine how the Intelligent Vehicle (IV) should utilize this data. Various systems' solutions have been put forth and are described in the literature, while some of them are already used in practice. These solutions perform detection and distance measurements using different sensor technologies.