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<h2 id="results">Results</h2> <p>The project culminated in a 'Board Members Meeting' (BMM) on 18–20 October 1994 in Paris.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> Projects demonstrated ('Common European Demonstrators') were: </p><p>CED 1 : Vision Enhancement </p><p>CED 2-1 : Friction Monitoring and Vehicle Dynamics </p><p>CED 2-2 : Lane Keeping Support </p><p>CED 2-3 : Visibility Range Monitoring </p><p>CED 2-4 : Driver Status Monitoring </p><p>CED 3 : Collision Avoidance </p><p>CED 4 : Cooperative Driving </p><p>CED 5 : Autonomous Intelligent Cruise Control </p><p>CED 6 : Automatic Emergency Call </p><p>CED 7 : Fleet Management </p><p>CED 9 : Dual Mode Route Guidance </p><p>CED 10: Travel and Traffic Information Systems </p><p>PROMETHEUS PRO-ART profited from the participation of <a href="/facts/Ernst_Dickmanns/JnedCl5G">Ernst Dickmanns</a>, the 1980s pioneer of <a href="/facts/Driverless_car/KXeFywXS">driverless cars</a>, and his team at Bundeswehr Universität München, collaborating with <a href="/facts/Daimler-Benz/KfdR8UTS">Daimler-Benz</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> A first culmination point was achieved in 1994, when their twin robot vehicles <a href="/facts/VaMP/I6J6D4zE">VaMP</a> and VITA-2 drove more than 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) on a <a href="/facts/Paris/DrNHpwnA">Paris</a> multi-lane highway in standard heavy traffic at speeds up to 130 kilometres per hour (81 mph). They demonstrated autonomous driving in free lanes, <a href="/facts/Convoy/03yMx0P1">convoy</a> driving, automatic <a href="/facts/Optical_motion_tracking/vy5ab34S">tracking</a> of other vehicles, and lane changes left and right with autonomous passing of other cars.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="participants">Participants</h2> <p>There were upwards of 600 commercial members that participated in some way in the Prometheus Project,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> however, notable ones include </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Aeritalia/rSqQmTPS">Aeritalia</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/A%C3%A9rospatiale/styrHTdW">Aerospatiale</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/ABB/zYYBduhP">ASEA-Brown-Bovei</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/BASF/cdtGr0TK">BASF</a></li></ul> <p>BMW </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Bosch_(company)/wPuk1Udv">Bosch</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/British_Aerospace/x6d51uno">British Aerospace</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Groupe_Bull/tlbdToLt">Bull</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/CASA_(aircraft_manufacturer)/z726esKI">CASA</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Canadian_General_Electric/v40lAnWu">CGE</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Fiat/7k2lm2Eh">Fiat</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/General_Electric_Company/kvuCGYSg">GEC</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Imperial_Chemical_Industries/XECoopCt">Imperial Chemicals, Inc.</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/International_Computers_Limited/2ztan410">ICL</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Italtel/CQXeFGoJ">Italtel</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Matra/GL0B2Wdn">Matra</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/MBB_SE/e6gfa53c">MBB</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Mercedes-Benz/pGrJrQHC">Mercedes</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Edison_(company)/NVzDsl9g">Montedison</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Nokia/bCleFoF4">Nokia</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Olivetti/bdoq8XPH">Olivetti</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Peugeot/Y7M6sq1D">Peugeot</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Philips/Xp4uczGg">Philips</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Plessey/JM0dv46r">Plessey</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Renault/obzoLxSN">Renault</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Saab_Automobile/HafQLEmC">Saab</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/STMicroelectronics/4gbGJTVr">SGS-Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Siemens/coa80TQn">Siemens</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Thomson_Reuters/GPIlfqa2">Thomson</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Volkswagen/LDkDEfDu">Volkswagen</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Volvo/JUFSUUYD">Volvo</a></li></ul> <p>In addition to commercial participation, there were multiple countries that assisted with the project. These include </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/France/CxIeIKM3">France</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Germany/paluuWBX">Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Italy/tUf0PDYF">Italy</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Spain/bIyrB8EY">Spain</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/United_Kingdom/kuPAILt2">The UK</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Netherlands/y8xn5stT">The Netherlands</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Sweden/u3qC7lyj">Sweden</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Austria/4qWIMIyc">Austria</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Belgium/YKuMXP5j">Belgium</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Denmark/KVtykzsw">Denmark</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Norway/wlDRKRTR">Norway</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Switzerland/LcGuxeTe">Switzerland</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Finland/G5Ak6T91">Finland</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Portugal/lYzwDQ63">Portugal</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Greece/lqHw8bTB">Greece</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Ireland/35vYxXdP">Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Luxembourg/vRN04l7f">Luxembourg</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Turkey/KIYAWAs0">Turkey</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Yugoslavia/rK14hYmb">Yugoslavia</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Iceland/E4KGYs2j">Iceland</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Canada/cWWFM8oc">Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">The United States</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Hungary/YRedQLtI">Hungary</a></li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>Cars portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Driverless_car/KXeFywXS">Driverless car</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/DARPA_Grand_Challenge/qfSRSYBa">DARPA Grand Challenge</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/ARGO_(ATV_manufacturer)/jUbeeSQE">ARGO</a> Project on autonomous cars</li> <li><a href="/facts/ELROB/SpkEG86V">ELROB</a> trials</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130812020119/http://www.gcdc.net/">Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge 2011</a>, International Competition</li></ul> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"EUREKA Project E!45 PROMETHEUS". EUREKA website. Archived from the original on 2018-08-14. Retrieved 2015-10-31. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180814201633/http://www.eurekanetwork.org/project/id/45" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20180814201633/http://www.eurekanetwork.org/project/id/45</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"High-Tech Europe". publishing.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2024-02-16. <a href="https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft609nb394&chunk.id=d0e18919&toc.id=&brand=ucpress" target="_blank">https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft609nb394&chunk.id=d0e18919&toc.id=&brand=ucpress</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Resources for tomorrow's transport. Brussels: European Conference of Transport Ministers (ECMT). 31 October 1989. pp. 455–458. ISBN 92-821-1142-3. Retrieved 23 July 2018. <a href="92-821-1142-3" target="_blank">92-821-1142-3</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Information, Reed Business (29 October 1987). "New Scientist" (1584): 30. Retrieved 23 July 2018. {{cite journal}}: |first1= has generic name (help); Cite journal requires |journal= (help) <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=zNhrfn31WcAC" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=zNhrfn31WcAC</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Board Member Meeting Event Guide. PROMETHEUS. 1994. <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Delcker, Janosch (19 July 2018). "The man who invented the self-driving car (in 1986)". Politico. Retrieved 23 July 2018. <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/delf-driving-car-born-1986-ernst-dickmanns-mercedes/" target="_blank">https://www.politico.eu/article/delf-driving-car-born-1986-ernst-dickmanns-mercedes/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>J. Becker, "Autonomous Driving: The Impact of Automated Vehicles on Society," Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 32-33. <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"High-Tech Europe". publishing.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2024-02-16. <a href="https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft609nb394&chunk.id=d0e18919&toc.id=&brand=ucpress" target="_blank">https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft609nb394&chunk.id=d0e18919&toc.id=&brand=ucpress</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>