ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the overall achievements of the Generic Intelligent Driver Support (GIDS) Project and further steps in the development of GIDS. The GIDS Project has culminated in a working prototype of an intelligent co-driver system. GIDS as it stands is a conceptually sound, but functionally still restricted prototype of an intelligent driver support interface. The results clearly demand further research and development before the GIDS technology can be brought to the Road Transport Informatics (RTI) market. The present range is limited by events and behaviours that were defined for the Small World paradigm. The ultimate aim is to provide a better, more reliable, and more user-friendly interface between the human driver and the various components of the road-traffic system. Insights and recommendations for the further study of real time interactive intelligent architectures may therefore be distilled from the GIDS experience.
