Intelligent vehicle technologies are rapidly growing worldwide. They have been recognized
as technologies that are enabling enhancement in road safety, road transport
operational efficiency, and increasing driving pleasure. Intelligent vehicle technologies
are being deployed under the umbrella of the 'driver assistance concept' (to assist
human beings while driving the vehicle) or the 'autonomous driving/intelligent vehicle
concept' (to enable a vehicle to drive independently (autonomously) along the road,
with no or limited assistance from humans). This book is aimed at giving a thorough introduction to the many aspects of these technologies whether they are to support only the driver assistance concept, the autonomous driving concept, or both. However, the latter was selected as the focal point of this book bearing in mind that the driver assistance concept is a subset of the intelligent vehicle concept.