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Introduction: Traffic safety is a major requirement for transportation systems. A lot of work has been done in the passive safety area where milliseconds during a crash are of high importance. Nowadays, collision avoidance in the field of active safety is more prioritised. Accident avoidance by active intervention for Intelligent Vehicles is the headline of the large European project interactIVe [1]. interactIVe has the objective to develop new integrated Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Several subprojects are defined in this project, including INCA that aims for INtegrated Collision Avoidance by combining longitudinal and lateral control of the vehicle to prevent possible accidents. As a contribution to INCA, this study focuses on autonomous path stability control of heavy vehicles and passenger cars, which may serve as a basis for active intervention, particularly intended for helping the driver in emergency collision avoidance manoeuvres.