In the present trend suggestsdriving and navigation support systems are getting importance because it is crucial in supporting drivers in several conditions in automobile industry. It is important for driving support systems to detect the status/activity of driver’s consciousness. Detecting onset of driver fatigue could prevent the accidents caused by drowsy driving. It is proposed to detect / ...

In order to efficiently assist the driver, assistance systems need to be able to tune the offered assistance to the driver’s needs. As the number and variety of assistance systems in the automobile increase, we are increasingly supplied with data from various sensors about the state of the vehicle, the driver and the driving environment. A fusion of the available data can provide the systems wi...

There is a growing need for some kind of personal driving assistant which is likely to become more acute as the free, independent , and very mobile baby boomers continue to age. Up to 86.5% of the US workforce commutes to work every day through personally owned automobile, often driving alone a car, a van, or a truck, at times in a commute as long as two hours. Urban planning and life style are...

A production conflict and error detection model has been developed to detect problems that occur in a collaborative environment. A case study was performed on three automobile company agencies (vehicle delivery center, shipping yard, and dealers) in a finished vehicle distribution/shipping environment. The vehicle shipping plan was investigated and possible errors and conflicts were identified....

Predicting what drivers will do as vehicle control is handed over to them from automation a relatively new challenge for the motor industry. Operator Event Sequence Diagrams (OESDs) offer way of modeling interactions between driver and in handover control. In this paper, two studies are presented which range strategies tested. The anticipated were modeled using OESDs serve predictions behavior....

The TMO (Time-triggered Message-Triggered Object) structuring scheme is aimed at facilitating realtime (RT) distributed software engineering in a form which software engineers in the vast business software field can adapt to with small efforts. It is a syntactically simple and natural but semantically powerful extension of the conventional object structuring approaches. In the course of develop...

Drivers are positioned as the nucleus of driving helped by driving support systems of ITS. An automatic driving system in the future may release drivers partially from driving but will never release them completely. This is because automobiles are a door-to-door means of transport, and the concept of an automobile is a driver controlled vehicle system in essence. Therefore, it is desirable for ...

The use of driving simulators is increasing in clinical settings that provide driving evaluation and rehabilitation. To identify the driving simulator scenarios desired by certified driving rehabilitation specialists (CDRSs), we developed a questionnaire consisting of 22 driving scenario situations. A total of 164 CDRSs rated each situation in terms of its importance for inclusion in simulator-...