Predictive models of destinations represent an opportunity in the context of the increasing availability and sophistication of in-car driving aids. We present analyses of drivers’ destinations based on GPS data recorded from 180 volunteer subjects. We focus on the probability of observing drivers visit previously unobserved destinations given time of day and day of week, and the rate of decline...

Nowadays, driving support systems, such as car navigation systems, are getting common, and they support drivers in several aspects. It is important for driving support systems to detect status of driver's consciousness. Particularly, detecting driver's drowsiness could prevent drivers from collisions caused by drowsy driving. In this paper, we discuss a system and a method for detecting driver'...

As the number of vehicles continues to grow, more accidents occur most likely due to careless driving of the drivers who do not maintain the safety distance. To assist managers in their tasks of traffic planning, a system for decision support becomes essential. This article aims to describe our interactive control system (ICS), which falls into this category. Such a system should allow, through...

Modern cars are equipped with advanced technology requiring cognitively complex operation that is reliant on the user’s visual attention. It is therefore hazardous for drivers to operate such devices while driving. In this paper a user interface interaction style for in-car user interfaces are proposed. Users interact with the in-car computer using three chording keys and chording pattern seque...

This study examined age related decrements in the use of optical flow and landmark information for the control of steering. Older and younger drivers viewed computer generated displays simulating vehicle motion through a random dot ground plane scene. The horizontal position of the driver was perturbed according a sum of sines function and the driver had to keep steering straight (resembling th...

Background The prevalence of drunk driving is low in Norway; only about 0.2% of car drivers have blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) above the legal limit of 0.02 g/dl. The prevalence of driving with concentrations of psychoactive drugs in blood above the legislative limits is estimated to be 1-2%. However, alcohol is still the most commonly found substance in blood samples from drivers killed ...

Nowadays, driving support systems, such as car navigation systems, are getting common, and they support drivers in several aspects. It is important for driving support systems to detect status of driver's consciousness. Particularly, detecting driver's drowsiness could prevent drivers from collisions caused by drowsy driving. In this paper, we discuss a system and a method for detecting driver'...

Studies of accident statistics suggest that motorcyclists are particularly vulnerable to collisions with other vehicles which pull out of side roads onto a main carriageway, failing to give way to the approaching motorcycle. Why might this happen? The typical response of the car driver is that they looked in the appropriate direction but simply failed to see the motorcycle. To assess the visual...

In the field of driver modelling, this paper proposes a new approach to simulation and control applications. The driver is considered as a controller of the closed loop defined by the Driver-Vehicle-Environment system. More precisely, the behaviour model developed describes the driver’s activity from the trajectory vector taken, associating the speed and the trajectory itself. The advantage of ...