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...

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 ...

Each year, many preventable highway automobile accidents involving single vehicles are caused by inattention and distraction. These accidents are classified as single vehicle road departures. Lane departure and curve negotiation warning systems are an emerging technology to help prevent these types of accidents. I plan to build a road departure warning system that learns individual driver behav...

Pattern Recognition Techniques to Infer Driver Intentions Hiren M. Mandalia Dr. Dario Salvucci, Ph.D. Driving is a complex task that requires constant attention from the mind and the body. Automobile drivers today are under high risks, thanks to the ever-expanding telematics industry, cell-phone driving and other distractions. Inferring driver intentions, especially critical ones like changing ...

Through extensive literature search, it has been found that there exists strong correlation between the Mental Workload of an automobile driver with his or her physiological measurements, especially the Heart Rate Variability (HRV) measurements. In order to make a driver's HRV monitoring on the road possible, a new photoplethysmograph (PPG) Ring Sensor prototype has been devised specifically fo...

Run-off-road crashes have been identified as a major concern for automobile safety and several advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs) targeting run-off-road crashes are on the market today. Assessment of ADASs require relevant test scenarios and valid computational models of driver behaviour. Therefore, the objectives of this thesis has been: (A) define run-off-road test scenarios, and (B) ...

BACKGROUND Continued automobile driving is important for the wellbeing and independence of older adults. Frailty has been associated with a variety of negative health outcomes, but studies are lacking on the potential association between frailty and driving status. The present study uses data from The National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) to assess if the presence of frailty is associa...

The current members of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation include Autoliv Electronics, Bosch, FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society, General Motors, Honda R&D Americas, Meritor WABCO, Nissan Technical Center North America, Renault, and Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America. Information about Sustainable Worldwide Transportation is available at: http://www.umich.edu/...

The expansion of Malaysia’s automobile industry has witnessed the emergence of driver assistance system (DAS) that enables the interaction between the driver and the vehicle. Over the past few years, DAS has become a necessity and is commonly found on conventional vehicles instead of as luxury equipments on high-end vehicles. The rapid development of DAS provides drivers with radically enhanced...

Vision systems within vehicles offer new opportunities in the automobile industry. The detection and classification of passenger and driver seat occupancy open up new ways to improve the safety and comfort of the passengers. In this paper we present results of a stereo system designed for the observation of the cockpit scene in order to provide information about the passenger presence and locat...