Recommendations for older driver-friendly automobile interior design have been determined by taking into account older people’s physical and cognitive characteristics. Twenty three older people (aged from 54 to 78) and five younger people (from 20 to 29) performed several tasks in actual driving conditions, in which their reaction times and performance errors were recorded. Some design factors ...

The objective of the research is to analyze relationship Motivation as a soft skill that drives Customer Service in car dealerships, specifically sales area employees. survey was applied sample 81 managers from automotive agencies Monterrey metropolitan area. proposed model linear regression. surveys were processed with SPSS Statistics. hypothesis confirmed, about positive and significant predi...

Drowsiness and fatigue of automobile drivers reduce the drivers’ abilities of vehicle control, natural reflex, recognition and perception. Such diminished vigilance level of drivers is observed at night driving or overdriving, causing accident and pose severe threat to mankind and society. Therefore it is very much necessary in this recent trend in automobile industry to incorporate driver assi...

Minimising driver distraction is a crucial factor in the design of new driver assistance systems and in-vehicle information systems. Therefore two different driver-vehicle interface concepts for an Active Cruise Control (ACC) system were designed and tested with 12 drivers in a static driving simulator. These concepts differed in the location (steering wheel vs. dashboard) and type of controls....

In order to be an effective tool for driver evaluation and education, driving simulators need to be better designed to reduce simulator sickness. In this paper, we expose platform design, description and the modeling aspects of a 2 DOF low cost motion platform allowing the restitution of the longitudinal and yaw movements. To enhance the drive immersion in the virtual world, a haptic feedback s...

The goal of a driving simulator is to produce an environment for a driver similar to the real driving scenario. Motion cueing algorithms are used to produce a realistic motion while respecting the workspace limitations and motion simulator boundaries. Model Predictive Control has become popular recently for motion cueing. However, in this control method, the optimization is based on a predefine...

Driving simulators are often used in a type of experiments where the result may depend on traffic conditions. One example is the evaluation of cellular phones and how they affect driving behavior. It is clear that the ability to use phones during driving depends on the amount of traffic, and that realistic experiments in driving simulators therefore must include surrounding traffic. This paper ...

Traffic violations are a major problem. Monitoring these traffic violations by human intervention over a wider area is too complicated due to the increasing population. The main motive behind this paper is to reduce these reckless accidents for which we propose a system that governs and controls the speed of the vehicle without any direct inconvenience to the driver. There are instances where t...

Railway level crossings have the potential to bring motor vehicles and trains into fatal contact. In Australia there are approximately 9,400 public railway level crossings across the country, protected either passively (64%) or by active/automated systems (28%). Passive crossings provide only a stationary sign warning of the possibility of trains crossing. Their message remains constant over ti...

The electric vehicle (EV) has been developing rapidly and predicting the lifetime of Li-ion batteries in EVs has become an important issue. Characteristics of human drivers and the battery configuration interact and both play important roles in determining EV battery lifetime. Moreover, due to the relatively high cost of real EVs and long testing time for battery life of EVs, it is important to...