CityACC – On the way towards an intelligent autonomous driving

Abstract As comfort systems, the existing Adaptive Cruise Control systems (ACC-systems) function well on motorways and well-structured highways, but there are a lot of challenges for machine-supported driving in urban environments. This paper is aimed to introduce an innovative way to extension of the existing ACC-system for driving in the urban environments (so-called CityACC), where the secondary optical sensor (a stereo-camera) and an intelligent decision making algorithm are used for improving the performance of the whole system.