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Autonomous Robots 19, 115–116, 2005 c 2005 Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. Manufactured in The Netherlands. Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Robotics Technologies for Intelligent Road Vehicles Throughout the twentieth century, the automobile and its infrastructure were developed in such a way as to become the dominant transport mode for passengers as well as goods in most countries. However, this development has been mostly based around increasing numbers of vehicles with more and more new roads (and in particular new freeways) and more and more vehicles. Although this quantitative development has not reached its full extent in many countries, in most industrialised countries a saturation point seems to have been reached (or is being approached) in terms of infrastructure as well as number of vehicles. Furthermore, the number of accidents generated by road transport (leading to more than a million deaths per year worldwide) is not acceptable by any standard and several countries have set short term goals of 50% reductions in casualties and a few countries have set a target of zero fatalities. Improvements in vehicle quality have helped to increase safety and capacity, for example through reduced safe stopping distances and improved acceleration, but the automobile
Autonomous Robots – Springer Journals
Published: Jan 1, 2005
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