Improved Vehicle Safety and How Technology Will Get Us There, Hopefully -- New Concepts on Safe Driver-Assistance Systems -- Real-World Data Collection with "UYANIK" -- On-Going Data Collection of Driving Behavior Signals -- UTDrive: The Smart Vehicle Project -- Wireless Lan-Based Vehicular Location Information Processing -- Perceptually Optimized Packet Scheduling for Robust Real-Time Intervehicle Video Communications -- Machine Learning Systems for Detecting Driver Drowsiness -- Extraction of Pedestrian Regions Using Histogram and Locally Estimated Feature Distribution -- EEG Emotion Recognition System -- Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging in Air for Parking and Pedestrian Protection -- A New Method for Evaluating Mental Work Load In n-Back Tasks -- Estimation of Acoustic Microphone Vocal Tract Parameters from Throat Microphone Recordings -- Cross-Probability Model Based on Gmm for Feature Vector Normalization -- Robust Feature Combination for Speech Recognition Using Linear Microphone Array in a Car -- Prediction of Driving Actions from Driving Signals -- Design of Audio-Visual Interface for Aiding Driver's Voice Commands in Automotive Environment -- Estimation of High-Variance Vehicular Noise -- Feature Compensation Employing Model Combination for Robust In-Vehicle Speech Recognition.