Title
Drowsy drivers' under-performance in lateral control: How much is too much? Using an integrated measure of lateral control to quantify safe lateral driving
Author
van Loon, R.J.
Brouwer, R.F.T.
Martens, M.H.
Publication year
2015
Abstract
Internationally, drowsy driving is associated with around 20% of all crashes. Despite the development of different detection methods, driver drowsiness remains a disconcerting public health issue. Detection methods can estimate drowsiness by directly measuring the physiology of the driver, or they can measure the effect that drowsiness has on the state of the vehicle due to the behavioural changes that drowsiness elicits in the driver. The latter has the benefit that it could measure the net effect that drowsiness has on driving performance which links to the actual safety risk. Fusing multiple sources of driving performance indicators like lane position and steering wheel metrics in order to detect drowsiness has recently gained increased attention. However, not much research has been conducted with regard to using integrated measures to detect increased drowsiness within an individual driver. Different levels of drowsiness are also rarely classified in terms of safe or unsafe. In the present study, we attempt to slowly induce drowsiness using a monotonous driving task in a simulator, and fuse lane position and steering wheel angle data into a single measure for lateral control performance. We argue that this measure is applicable in real-time detection systems, and quantitatively link it to different levels of drowsiness by validating it to two established drowsiness metrics (KSS and PERCLOS). Using level of drowsiness as a surrogate for safety we are then able to set simple criteria for safe and unsafe lateral control performance, based on individual driving behaviour. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Subject
Human & Operational Modelling
PCS - Perceptual and Cognitive Systems
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Traffic
Driver behaviour
Driver drowsiness
Fusing behavioural indicators
Real-time measurements
Safety thresholds
Automobile drivers
Crashworthiness
Real time systems
Risk assessment
Safety engineering
Wheels
Behavioural changes
Driver behaviour
Driver drowsiness
Driving performance
Public health issues
Real time measurements
Real-time detection
Safety threshold
Automobile steering equipment
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2015.08.012
TNO identifier
528411
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd
ISSN
0001-4575
Source
Accident Analysis and Prevention, 84, 134-143
Document type
article