Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) are the communication devices between invehicle applications and the driver. Frequently, independent HMIs are used for different applications which may cause information overload situations at the driver. Hence, a common HMI design that determines the application interface with an HMI Manager that provides rules for prioritizing information from different applica...

conclusions the seatbelt wearing rate among the study participants was much lower than the 90% rate reported among iranian drivers in 2010. mandating seatbelt use, as in most countries, will be more effective if a combination of factors such as changes in vehicle design, road safety, and driver and passenger behavior are taken into account. background seatbelts are a relatively low-cost safety ...

Traffic accidents are caused by driver fatigue or distraction in many cases. To prevent accidents, several low-cost hypovigilance (hypo-V) systems were developed the past based on a multimodal-hybrid (physiological and behavioral) feature set. Similarly this paper, real-time inattention (Hypo-Driver) detection system is proposed through multi-view cameras biosignal sensors to extract hybrid fea...

Due to the increasing demand for traveling in public transportation systems and increasing traffic of vehicles, nowadays vehicles are getting to be intelligent to increase safety, reduce the probability of accident and also financial costs. Therefore, today, most vehicles are equipped with multiple safety control and vehicle navigation systems. In the process of developing such systems, simulat...

This paper describes the development of a neural network driver agent to improve the realism and perceived “intelligence” of autonomous vehicles in driving simulation scenarios. Driver agent refers to simulated entities which have an internal representation or knowledge of the traffic environment through their vision and can determine their own actions using their decision/cognitive capabilitie...

D espite decades of research indicating driver education does not reduce crash involvement among beginning drivers, it still has tremendous popular appeal as a means to improve driver safety. Formal driver education programs enjoy widespread public acceptance around the world as the preferred way to prepare beginners for licensure. For example, a survey in the United States found that 86% consi...

A single shadow driver is written for each device class, implementing the same interface to the operating system that a driver for a real device does. A shadow runs silently alongside each real driver, observing requests, until failure is detected by the OS. This triggers a restart of the real driver, while the shadow temporarily assumes responsibility for spoofing it and handling application r...