A Longitudinal Simulator Study to Explore Drivers’ Behaviour During Highly-Automated Driving

Large, David R.; Burnett, Gary; Morris, Andrew; Muthumani, Arun; Matthias, Rebecca

Abstract

Six experienced drivers each undertook five 30-min journeys (portrayed as ‘daily commutes’ i.e. one on each of five consecutive weekdays) in a medium-fidelity driving-simulator engineered to mimic a highly-automated vehicle. Participants were encouraged to act as they might in such a vehicle by bringing with them their own objects/devices to use. During periods of automation, participants were quickly engrossed by their chosen activities, many of which had strong visual, manual and cognitive elements, and required postural adaptation (e.g. moving/reclining the driver’s seat); the steering wheel was typically used to support objects/devices. Consistently high subjective ratings of trust suggest that drivers were unperturbed by the novelty of highly-automated driving and generally willing to allow the vehicle to assume control; ratings of situational awareness varied considerably indicating mixed opinions. Qualitative results are discussed in the context of the re-design of vehicles to enable safe and comfortable engagement with secondary activities during high-automation.

Citation

Large, D. R., Burnett, G., Morris, A., Muthumani, A., & Matthias, R. (2017, July). A Longitudinal Simulator Study to Explore Drivers’ Behaviour During Highly-Automated Driving. Presented at International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics AHFE 2017, Los Angeles, California, USA

• Presentation Conference Type: Edited Proceedings
• Conference Name: International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics AHFE 2017
• Start Date: Jul 17, 2017
• End Date: Jul 21, 2017
• Acceptance Date: Jun 24, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Jun 24, 2017
• Publication Date: 2018
• Deposit Date: Nov 23, 2018
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 583-594
• Series Title: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
• Series Number: 597
• Series ISSN: 2194-5365
• Book Title: Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation : Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation, July 17−21, 2017, The Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA7
• Chapter Number: 57
• ISBN: 9783319604404; 9783319604411
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60441-1_57
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1214103
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-60441-1_57