According to data from the United Nations, more than 3000 people have died each day in the world due to road traffic collision. Considering recent researches, the human error may be considered as the main responsible for these fatalities. Because of this, researchers seek alternatives to transfer the vehicle control from people to autonomous systems. However, providing this technological innova...

Preface The SleepNoise (The effect of noise on driving performance and driver sleepiness) project was initiated by Volvo Car Corporation as a response to anecdotal evidence for increased driver drowsiness related to certain interior sound conditions. The project has been performed as a close collaboration between Volvo Car Corporation (VCC) and the Swedish National Road and Transport Research I...

Driving simulators are becoming a common research tool for investigating driver behavior in safe, controlled environments. Wide ranges of simulator configurations are available for research—this wide range, as well as and the complexity of the virtual worlds being driven, has not been studied for specific effects on driver response. This study examined driver behaviors in virtual scenarios with...

Some users of virtual environments experience adverse effects known as simulator sickness. Common symptoms are generally grouped into nausea, oculomotor discomfort, and disorientation. This research examined whether the severity and type of simulator sickness differs due to the type of driving environment or the gender of the driver. Three environments with variations in driver workload were de...

Driving is a daily activity throughout the world. However, driving at highways or city requires significant cognitive and motor skills such as visual-spatial ability, memory and information processing and rapid reaction. Recent studies show lack of driver alertness to be a major cause of automobile accidents on roadways across the world. The perceived state of alertness is a complex physiologic...

In order to introduce a realistic simulation environment to support the research on vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), the human behavior must be studied, understood and included in the mobility model representing the vehicles movement. This paper studies the behavior of the driver concerning specifically the decision to change the lane. Our study is based on real world observations and safety...

This paper demonstrates the use of elementary neural networks for modelling and representing driver steering behaviour in path regulation control tasks. Areas of application include uses by vehicle simulation experts who need to model and represent specific instances of driver steeringcontrol behaviour, potential on-board vehicle technologies aimed at representing and tracking driver steering c...

This paper introduces CARS, an open source driving simulator tool for evaluating driver distraction. We present the map editor, the driving simulation tool and the analysis tool included in CARS. Based on initial results from initial user studies we illustrate the effectiveness of CARS in evaluating different secondary tasks (e.g., compare different UIs for navigation systems) with regard to dr...

In this paper we examine the requirements for scenario control programming languages and consider approaches for designing textual-based scenario specification languages. By scenario programs, we mean the code that determines what objects are in the simulation environment and how object behaviors are coordinated to produce predictable experiences for the driver in a ground vehicle simulator. Sc...

PURPOSE Virtual reality (VR) is a relatively new technology that is currently utilized in a wide variety of settings to test and train individuals in specialized skills. This study examines methods for improving driver retraining protocols for persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). METHOD We compared a VR driving simulator, under two different display conditions, a head mounted display (HMD) ...