scope:

The present document identifies the key aspects of use of ICT in cars and provides advice on safer and more effective use. Both the driver's and the passenger's requirements are examined. Factors relating to the safe use of ICT and to the personalization of the user experience are identified.

Issues with services and devices related to both the driver and passengers are addressed, including devices which are:

• mounted rigidly in the vehicle, either fitted during manufacture or later (e.g. for navigation, entertainment, games, emergency assistance services);

• communicating with the in-vehicle network e.g. for connecting phones, navigation equipment;

• portable equipment used in the vehicle.

Those aspects of ICT in cars with which the car user has no involvement are outside the scope of the present document. Also excluded from the scope are special functions designed exclusively for use in taxis or cars used as emergency service vehicles.

The approach taken in the present document is compatible with the European Statement of Principles on the Design of Human Machine Interaction [i.21].