This Function shall be capable of providing the following facilities:<br/><br/>(1) The ability to collect Extended Floating Car Data (XFCD) from the host Vehicle and the Other Vehicle plus fused data from the System that it has collected from other Vehicles.<br/>(2) The ability to collate and fuse all of the data that has been collected to provide a coherent and consistent view of the road and traffic situation around the host Vehicle.<br/>(3) The ability to send the data that has been collated and fused to the Driver Display Function.<br/>
(a) continuously monitor for the receipt of the input data flows;<br/>(b) when any of the data flows in (a) is received, combine and fuse its contents to form a coherent and consistent set of traffic and road data for the area surrounding the Host Vehicle;<br/>(c) as part of (b) reject data from the Other Vehicle or from other system functionality if it is about a location, or about traffic that is travelling in a direction that is not relevant to the host Vehicle;<br/>(d) store the results of the processing in (b) and (c) locally for use in (b) when either of the data flows in (a) is received again;<br/>(e) send the results of (b) and (c) to the Display function.<br/>
