Road vehicle guidance was picked up initially because the step to aero-space
vehicles (the proper domain at the Department for Aerospace Engineering (LRT)) was considered
to be too much for the beginning. This application domain has been so successful that it
allowed to attract by far the major part of research money from industry and ministries over
the next 1½ decades. A survey may be found in [Dic 95a] containing references to the various
fields of applications of computer vision.