Every year 15,000 people are killed on US highways in single vehicle roadway departure automobile crashes, often because of driver drowsiness or inattention. This talk will describe techniques we are developing to prevent these tragedies. Learning is central to this work due to the extreme variability of environmental conditions and individual driver styles. I will describe our recent progress ...

Automobile automation is increasing. In the light of aircraft automation, this paper present a first account on a possible transfer from aeronautics to automobile (AtoA). The common aspect concerns the concept of information-intensive deeper interface between the driver and the mechanical parts of the vehicle in its environment. The automobile is integrating more information technology to impro...

The problem of controlling a single ray bundle with a single reflector is not generally solvable, but approximate solutions may often be found that are acceptable for applications. We introduce a new technique for finding such approximations and apply it to the design of a driver-side mirror for an automobile that has no blind spot and minimal distortion.

Partially automated driving is expected to increase traffic efficiency. However, automation causes human factors concerns. One concern is the reduced operability during transitions between automation level, e.g. when failures occur. These concerns ask for a more justifiable implementation of automation for automobile appliances. As a first step towards applicable solutions for driver support, w...

The purpose of this paper is to critically review the current trend in automobile engineering toward automation of many of the functions previously performed by the driver. Working on the assumption that automation in aviation represents the basic model for driver automation, the costs and benefits of automation in aviation are explored as a means of establishing where automation of drivers tas...

Driving simulators have been widely used to investigate driver behavior and psychophysiological responses. In this paper, we proposed to use multiple participant-operated driving simulators which communicate with each other so the platoon formed by the simulators can demonstrate realistic effects of driver-driver interaction in simulation scenarios. In our preliminary experiment, three driving ...

To reduce the number of traffic accidents and to increase the drivers comfort, the thought of designing driver assistance systems rose in the past years. Fully or partly autonomously guided vehicles, particularly for road traffic, pose high demands on the development of reliable algorithms. Principal problems are caused by having a moving observer in predominantly natural environments. At the I...