This book addresses the issue of road congestion due to increased traffic in urban and metropolitan areas and the design of an autonomous longitudinal speed controller as a solution to this problem. One of the best ways to increase efficiency of the available road infrastructure is to enable vehicles to move in a platoon with very small distance headway from the preceding vehicle. A Longitudinal Finite State Machine has been developed which acts as a supervisory control to help the following vehicle to merge behind and follow the preceding vehicle. This book also presents the study of the...