ABSTRACT
People have always wanted to extend the power and reach of their senses and have always looked for support. The development of cognitive science has brought people the computational approach to human information processing. The central function of systems of the fourth kind, that is, of adaptive driver support systems such as Generic Intelligent Driver Support (GIDS), is to organize the information that is to be processed by the vehicle operator, by filtering, interpreting, integrating, prioritizing, and presenting the information from any number of sensor systems and applications in the vehicle and the environment. Driver support systems derive their usefulness to a large extent from the fact that vehicle operators must cope with a growing amount of information of an increasingly complicated nature. The really innovative feature of GIDS is that it is the first system ever to take into account, in an adaptive fashion, the intentions, capabilities, and limitations of the individual driver.
