Space for Traffic Manoeuvres: An Overview

Dense traffic on roads is calling for advanced driver assistance systems or even autonomous driving to increase the safety (collision freedom). How can we prove that such systems guarantee safety? Realising that safety on roads is a primarily spatial property, we started an approach to car safety that decomposes spatial from dynamic reasoning; it is based on a dedicated Multi-lane Spatial Logic (MLSL) [1], which abstracts from the continuous car dynamics, and controllers using MLSL formulas. The paper gives an overview of recent results in pursuing this approach.

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