BACKGROUND Motor-vehicle crashes (MVCs) are a leading cause of death of young Americans and Canadians. Aggressive driving and driving at high speed are frequently cited as contributing to crashes. Consumer and safety associations have raised concern that driving behaviour portrayed in automobile commercials may influence consumer-driving behaviour. However, the prevalence of aggressive driving ...

Objective sleepiness evaluation is essential for the effect analysis of countermeasures for driver sleepiness, such as in-car stimulants. Furthermore, measuring drivers’ sleepiness in simulator studies also becomes important when investigating causes for task-related sleepiness, for example driving on monotonous routes, which requires little driver engagement. To evaluate driver sleepiness and ...

A growing issue in the area of vehicular ride comfort is that of child safety seats. Postural, thermal and vibrational comfort considerations are finding their way into child seat design. This paper makes some observations regarding the current state of child safety seat design, then goes on to present the results of vibration tests performed over two road surfaces using two child seats and two...

In this paper, we study learning generalized driving style representations from automobile GPS trip data. We propose a novel Autoencoder Regularized deep neural Network (ARNet) and a trip encoding framework trip2vec to learn drivers’ driving styles directly from GPS records, by combining supervised and unsupervised feature learning in a unified architecture. Experiments on a challenging driver ...

Field operational testing for the study of driver behavior requires extensive preparation and precaution measures to limit subjects risk exposure during experiment. Moreover, inherent variability in testing conditions may introduce error in the experiment results. Alternatively, a driving simulator offers the ability to replicate driving situations in a safe and repeatable experimental environm...

Results based on traac accident analysis indicate that a leading cause for automobile accidents is due to a diminished vigilance on the part of the driver. Two major factors that may result in a reduction of a driver's alertness are drowsiness and intoxication. Developing eeective technologies for measuring drowsiness/intoxication is therefore imperative for reducing automobile accidents. The d...

Driver steering control performance varies with time during the vehicle driving course. A serial vehicle steering assist controller is designed to provide steering correction that can compensate the difference between the current driver and an “idealized” driver model. Using variable structure model reference adaptive control, a robust adaptive controller for lane keeping assist is developed. T...

Automobile driver information as displayed on marked road signs indicates the state of the road, traffic conditions, proximity to schools, etc. These signs are important to insure the safety of the driver and pedestrians. They are also important input to the automated advanced driver assistance system (ADAS), installed in many automobiles. Over time, the arrow-road markings may be eroded or oth...

Objective: It is believed that drivers play a crucial role in accidents. Paying attention to brake lights, a driver may find out about danger and react. Rear-end collision accidents refer to the part of the accidents due to driver inattention or slow reaction. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of dynamic flashing brake lights (7 Hz) on drivers' brake reaction time using the driv...