Dear Colleagues,

The driverless car theme has become a key focus of the industrial and technological world scenes. Considered with trepidation rather than anxiety, driverless cars will alter human mobility. They will put a strain on various sectors, in particular, public administration, which will be required to form new regulations and to determine the liability levels of these vehicles. At the same time, considering that several significant players in the automotive industry have shown their interest in this type of vehicle by developing prototypes and testing them in many contexts, an additional boost in the development of innovative algorithms, systems, and methodologies is necessary with straight employment not only for autonomous driving but also for advanced driver assistance systems.

For this Special Issue of Sustainability, we invite authors to submit high-quality and unpublished papers that strive to resolve open technical problems and challenges typical of driverless cars. The principal purpose is to combine innovative methods efficiently, integrating performance evaluation and the comparison with existing solutions. Both theoretical and experimental studies for typical scenarios related to driverless cars are encouraged, as well as high-quality review and survey papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

• Vision, lidar and radar perception;
• Special sensors for autonomous navigation;
• Vehicle scene understanding;
• Sensor technologies for driverless cars;
• Wireless communications in connected vehicles;
• Cooperative driving;
• Vehicle navigation and localization systems;
• Perception in challenging conditions;
• Advanced driver assistance systems;
• Software architecture for autonomous vehicles;
• Assistive intelligent vehicles;
• Vehicle dynamics and control;
• Driver–vehicle interaction and assisted driving;
• Human factors and human–machine interactions.

Prof. Dr. Alessandro Severino
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Pau
Dr. Giuseppina Pappalardo
Guest Editors

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• intelligent vehicles
• sensors
• road user behavior modeling
• sensor and information fusion
• advanced driver assistance systems
• image, radar, and LiDAR signal processing
• human factors
• Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
• wireless communications