[ar5boosted]

Seems like a viable project to me. I'm a bit of a noob to car-hacking using computers but here is a good list of tools that I found so far:

- Car Hacking 101: Tools of the Trade | Make:

The Stop/Start system would be interesting to have even on non-vw cars. So whatever algorithm you came up with for that could be a generic template for other cars.

To me, I would pick gps based start-stop. Because many logic-assumptions would be based on things like distance to the next traffic lights and current speed, are you going up a known incline or down.

Yes, the Honda Jazz/Fit has that type of sensor in its gearbox already to read incline but what fun is that - especially if that is not your car.

I'm swaying to using a Raspberry-Pi for all this because of the higher-level software tools. Using pieces from the above link you could actually start implementing some of this soon.

Originally Posted by teoman

Save the stop function activate at sat 30 kph while coasting down to a stoplight

Did I tell you I know OpenCV (computer-vision) programming ? you could detect a green light with a camera module especially if it's at a known point.

You can colour mask it to find out if it's green or red.