Thank you for pointing this out.
The behavior is working as intended and the documentation has been amended (
http://sumo.dlr.de/wiki/TraCI/Vehicle_Value_Retrieval#Extended_retrieval_messages
).
Due to the way, vehicles using the default model always stay clear of the
minGap, the distance reflects the value that may practically be driven.
I concede that it is somewhat surprising when using other car following
models and the semantics might be changed in the future.

regards,
Jakob

2016-05-31 10:21 GMT+02:00 Hübner, Karl <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> I just noticed that the TraCI function which returns the ID of the leading
> vehicle and its distance, provides a faulty distance. (command: 0xa4,
> variable: 0x68)
>
> I have the following situation with two vehicles on the same lane:
>
> - Vehicle "0" with lane position 118m
> - Vehicle "1" with lane position 146m
>
> Therefore, the distance between both vehicles should be:  lane-pos("1") -
> lane-pos("0") - vehicle_length("1") = 146m - 118m - 5m = 23m
>
> However, requesting the leading vehicle of "0" returns vehicle "1" with
> distance 20,5m.
>
> I noticed that the missing distance has exactly the same value as the
> min-gap of vehicle "0", which is configured with 2,5m in this specific test
> case.
>
> Is this behavior a bug or intended?
>
> Kind Regards,
> Karl.
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