Safety Traffic Speed Recommendations for Critical Road Scenarios Using Vehicular Networks

摘要

Long driving trips that traverse several states or counties are common these days, for tourism or products shipping aims. These trips are usually classified as dangerous trips due to the challenges and difficulties they introduce. The diversity of geometry and quality of road networks over the extended traveling areas, the diversity of weather conditions, and the long time of the day that drivers witness during these driving hours make even expert drivers in need for professional advices. In this work, we propose a driver assistance protocol that uses the real-time critical conditions of each driving area to recommend the safety speed. Moreover, this protocol measures the speed of each traveling vehicle and compares it to the recommended speed aiming to determine the severity of the dangerous situation introduced by drivers that are not following the safety recommendations. Severe scenarios should be reported to surrounding vehicles to be more careful regarding this irresponsible driver and/or reported to the driving authorities to enforce the driver to follow the driving safety rules.