Semi-automated versus highly automated driving in critical situations caused by automation failures
Journal article, 2014

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of vehicle automation and automation failures on driving performance. Previous studies have revealed problems with driving performance in situations with automation failures and attributed this to drivers being out-of-the-loop. It was therefore hypothesized that driving performance is safer with lower than with higher levels of automation. Furthermore, it was hypothesized that driving performance would be affected by the extent of the automation failure. A moving base driving simulator was used. The design contained semi-automated and highly automated driving combined with complete, severe, and moderate deceleration failures. In total the study involved 36 participants. The results indicate that driving performance degrades when the level of automation increases. Furthermore, it is indicated that car drivers are worse at handling complete than partial deceleration failures.

Driving performance

Automated driving

Adaptive Cruise Control

HMI

Vehicle automation

Automation failures

Out-of-the-loop performance

Author

Niklas Strand

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Design and Human Factors

Chalmers, Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers (SAFER)

Josef Nilsson

Chalmers, Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers (SAFER)

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Systems and control

MariAnne Karlsson

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Design and Human Factors

Lena Nilsson

The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)

Chalmers, Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers (SAFER)

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

1369-8478 (ISSN)

Vol. 27 PB 218-228

Areas of Advance

Transport

Subject Categories

Other Engineering and Technologies

Applied Psychology

DOI

10.1016/j.trf.2014.04.005

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