This Function shall be capable of providing the following facilities:<br/><br/>(1) The ability to take responsibility for processing information from sensors that detect the presence of Other Vehicles near to the Host Vehicle, i.e. the Vehicle in which it is operating.<br/>(2) The ability to process the sensor data to determine if any Vehicles are present, their location relative to the Host Vehicle and to determine their types and probably trajectories.<br/>(3) Once processing is complete, the ability to send the data in digital form to the Determine and store local Host Vehicle Conditions Function.<br/>
(a) continuously monitor the flow of input data;<br/>(b) convert the data in (a) into a digital form to show the location of other vehicles relative to the Host Vehicle, plus their type (e.g. private car, PT, HGV, HGV with hazardous goods, Emergency), direction of travel (trajectory) and their movement status, e.g. slow moving (if several are slow moving then there is congestion), stationary;<br/>(c) whenever a new vehicle is detected and/or at other intervals, send the results of (b) to the Determine and store local Host Vehicle conditions function in the vehicle detected nearby data flow.<br/>