The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) High-Fidelity Simulator, called HYSIM, was recently upgraded to better meet the needs of FHWA’s Human Centered Systems research program. The HYSIM is a fully interactive driving simulator used for human factors research in highway safety and highway operations. It provides a platform to study driver performance in a broad spectrum of driving situation...

Inter-vehicle communication is becoming increasingly relevant in the research and development of novel, innovative vehicular applications. To support the driver in his/her primary driving task in an effective non distracting way, these applications need to be evaluated in a realistic context from a driver’s perspective of the VANET environment. In this paper we propose an innovative driver-cent...

In this paper, we would like to introduce a second generation of headlight glare simulator to be used with a driving simulator that significantly improves spatial and brightness accuracy of previously developed prototype headlight glare simulator (Fullerton & Peli, 2009). The system combined a programmable off–the-shelf LED display board and a beamsplitter so that the LED lights, representing h...

Automobile industry in Taiwan has the characteristics of capital and technology intensive, strong operation management capability, close relationship supply chain and has played a critical role in the international market. Since there are hundreds of the first-tier suppliers and thousands of the second-tier suppliers, this leads automobile industry to be one of the most important industries in ...

Due to the increasing demand for traveling in public transportation systems and increasing traffic of vehicles, nowadays vehicles are getting to be intelligent to increase safety, reduce the probability of accident and also financial costs. Therefore, today, most vehicles are equipped with multiple safety control and vehicle navigation systems. In the process of developing such systems, simulat...

Development of advanced driver assistance systems and driving management systems requires careful and thorough evaluation of not only algorithms, but also user acceptance and adaptation. For that purpose, driving simulation provides an ideal environment by creating various driving situations that may not be possible in a test track for safety reasons and putting drivers in a simulation loop to ...

This project proposes to develop a driver simulator, which takes into account information about the user state of mind (level of attention, fatigue state, stress state). The user’s state of mind analysis is based on video data and physiological signals. Facial movements such as eyes blinking, yawning, head rotations... are detected on video data: they are used in order to evaluate the fatigue a...

This paper investigates the incentive effects of automobile insurance, compulsory insurance laws, and no-fault liability laws on driver behavior and traffic fatalities. We analyze a panel of 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia for 1970–98, a period in which many states adopted compulsory insurance regulations and/or nofault laws. Using an instrumental variables approach, we find evidenc...

The correlation between driver status and safety has increased interest in automated systems that can infer the physical and mental state of drivers [2, 3]. So far, most research on automated recognition of driver state has focused on physical state. More recently, researchers have proposed inferring the mental states of drivers by extracting drivers’ facial expressions from video data. Althoug...