Vehicle-to-X (V2X) communication (Popescu-Zeletin et al. 2010) is a promising technology
that has the potential to improve the safety of everyday road travel (Röckl et al. 2008). A
2010 study performed by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) concluded that Vehicle-to-X systems could potentially address 81% of all-vehicle
target crashes (Najm et al. 2010). Although it is clear that an efficient visualization for such
V2X systems’ data is crucial for the drivers, research is still mainly focusing on system and
technology aspects, such as radio communication, GeoNetworking, or information
generation. With our Android-based driver assistance system DriveAssist, we contribute
design and implementation concepts concerning the presentation of traffic information.
The availability of powerful mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablet personal
computers, makes those personal portable devices (PPDs) considerable alternatives to invehicle integrated systems (Diewald et al. 2011). Especially in mid-sized cars or compact
cars, which often have no head unit at all, the user’s PPD can be used for adding