The demands on a driver to maintain a consistent path is reflected in the driver’s workload. Visual demand, which can be measured using vision occlusion, can be used to quantify driver workload. Vision occlusion blanks out the driver’s vision of the roadway using a visor or other similar device. By measuring the amount of time the driver is viewing the roadway, a measure of the information load...

background: driver fatigue is one of the major implications in transportation safety and accounted for up to 40% of road accidents. this study aimed to analyze the eeg alpha power changes in partially sleep-deprived drivers while performing a simulated driving task. methods: twelve healthy male car drivers participated in an overnight study. continuous eeg and eog records were taken during driv...

in our country, student transportations’ security and driving accidents statistics for students is one of the major concerns for relevant organizations such as educational organization. in current year, a system, was named sepand, was formed in city taxi driver :::::::union::::::: by educational organization, naja traffic and city taxi driver :::::::union:::::::. in this systems’ plan, basis on...

This paper describes the development of a neural network driver agent to improve the realism and perceived “intelligence” of autonomous vehicles in driving simulation scenarios. Driver agent refers to simulated entities which have an internal representation or knowledge of the traffic environment through their vision and can determine their own actions using their decision/cognitive capabilitie...

For the research at the IZVW (Center for Traffic Sciences at the University of Würzburg) a driving simulator was build, that consists of 11 personal computers with a 180° front projection system, 3 rear projections and a 6-6 stewart platform. Also, three other driving simulators consisting of one, two and five personal computers are used at the IZVW for different experiments. One desired goal o...

This paper aims to make a discussion on acceptability of elderly drivers for Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) in Japan. In Japan, the issue focusing on the traffic safety of elderly people has become one of most important issues because Japan has been the most representative country to be the rapidly ageing society. As a measure of traffic safety, the ISA is considered as an effective measure...

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 ...

We report on our on-going effort to build an adaptive driver support system, Driver AdvocateTM, merging various AI techniques, in particular, agents, ontology, production systems and machine learning technologies. The goal of DA is to help drivers have a safer, more enjoyable, and more productive driving experience, by managing their attention and workload. This paper describes the overall arch...

Visual disorders of drivers, like high glare sensitivity, come to a higher accident risk at night. In contrast, light-based assistance systems, as marking light, try to optimize the perception of the driver by presenting as much light as possible on critical objects. Consequently it is necessary to analyze the influence of glare on contrast perception in order to estimate possible positive effe...

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...