Honda is planning to introduce Intelligent Adaptive Cruise Control (i-ACC), world’s first predictive cruise control system which will foreseeing and automatically react to vehicles that tries to ‘cut-in’.
i-ACC will use a radar and a camera to sense the position of other vehicles and applies certain algorithms to evaluate the relations between multiple vehicles to predict if the vehicles in neighbouring lanes could cutting-in.
The technology will help the vehicle with i-ACC to react quickly and in a safe manner.
Honda is planning to launch the system in upcoming new European CR-V and the technology will be built upon the traditional Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) system.
ACC helps the vehicle to maintain a safe distance to a car in front, but if another vehicle cuts-in, the ACC system reacts later, but with i-ACC the situation can be handled faster as it will predict the cut-in up to five seconds before it occurs.
Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH researcher responsible for i-ACC Dr. Schmuedderich said: "i-ACC is a significant breakthrough and a considerable further step towards a new generation of driver assistance systems that anticipate the behavior of other traffic participants."
i-ACC has been developed by the company's in-house Research & Development project undertaken by an international Honda team in Europe and Japan, and it is designed specifically for European roads.
