The effect of see-through truck on driver monitoring patterns and responses to critical events in truck platooning
conference paper
Automated platooning of trucks has its beneficial effects on energy saving and traffic flow efficiency. The vehicles in a platoon, however, need to maintain an extremely short headway to achieve these goals, which will result in a heavily blocked front view for the driver in a following truck. Monitoring surrounding traffic environment and foreseeing upcoming hazardous situations becomes a difficult, yet safety-critical task. This exploratory study aims to investigate whether providing platoon drivers with additional visual information of the traffic environment can influence their monitoring pattern and increase awareness of the upcoming situation. 22 professional truck drivers participated in the driving simulator experiment, either following a see-through lead truck (i.e., with projection of forward scene attached to the rear of the lead truck), or a normal lead truck until the automation system failed unexpectedly in a critical situation. Results showed that when provided with front view projection, the participants spent 10% more time monitoring the road, and responded less severely to a critical situation, suggesting a positive effect of the "see-through" technology.
Topics
Automated drivingEye trackingHuman machine interactionResponse timeTakeoverTruck platooningAutomationHuman computer interactionHuman engineeringResponse time (computer systems)Truck driversAutomated drivingBeneficial effectsExploratory studiesEye-trackingHuman machine interactionMonitoring patternsTakeoverTraffic environmentTrucks
TNO Identifier
777408
ISSN
21945357
ISBN
9783319604404
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Source title
Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Editor(s)
Stanton, N.A.
Pages
842-852
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