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Eureka Prometheus Project

The Eureka PROMETHEUS Project was the largest R&D project ever in the field of driverless cars. It received €749,000,000 in funding from the EUREKA member states, and defined the state of the art of autonomous vehicles. Numerous universities and car manufacturers participated in this Pan-European project.

Results
The project culminated in a 'Board Members Meeting' (BMM) on 18–20 October 1994 in Paris. Projects demonstrated ('Common European Demonstrators') were: CED 1 : Vision Enhancement CED 2-1 : Friction Monitoring and Vehicle Dynamics CED 2-2 : Lane Keeping Support CED 2-3 : Visibility Range Monitoring CED 2-4 : Driver Status Monitoring CED 3 : Collision Avoidance CED 4 : Cooperative Driving CED 5 : Autonomous Intelligent Cruise Control CED 6 : Automatic Emergency Call CED 7 : Fleet Management CED 9 : Dual Mode Route Guidance CED 10: Travel and Traffic Information Systems PROMETHEUS PRO-ART profited from the participation of Ernst Dickmanns, the 1980s pioneer of driverless cars, and his team at Bundeswehr Universität München, collaborating with Daimler-Benz. A first culmination point was achieved in 1994, when their twin robot vehicles VaMP and VITA-2 drove more than on a Paris multi-lane highway in standard heavy traffic at speeds up to . They demonstrated autonomous driving in free lanes, convoy driving, automatic tracking of other vehicles, and lane changes left and right with autonomous passing of other cars. == Participants ==
Participants
There were upwards of 600 commercial members that participated in some way in the Prometheus Project, however, notable ones include • AeritaliaAerospatialeASEA-Brown-BoveiBASFBMWBoschBritish AerospaceBullCASACGEFiatGECImperial Chemicals, Inc.ICLItaltelMatraMBBMercedesMontedisonNokiaOlivettiPeugeotPhilipsPlesseyRenaultSaabSGS-ThompsonSiemensThomsonVolkswagenVolvo In addition to commercial participation, there were multiple countries that assisted with the project. These include • FranceGermanyItalySpainThe UKThe NetherlandsSwedenAustriaBelgiumDenmarkNorwaySwitzerlandFinlandPortugalGreeceIrelandLuxembourgTurkeyYugoslaviaIcelandCanadaThe United StatesHungary == See also ==
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