Evaluating the Quality of Lane Change Event Detection: Effect of Situational Variables

To develop safe automated driving functions, knowing road-user’s lane change behaviour is critical. This detection problem may depend on multiple aspects such as road conditions, location, and weather. To understand the effect of these situational variables, this work introduces a lane change detection algorithm and assessed its performance...

Vehicle handling: Relationships between subjective and objective measures

TNO Human Factors and TNO Automotive are investigating relationships between subjective and objective measures in the area of vehicle handling. This paper presents a driving simulator study and a field experiment in which these relationships were investigated. First, in the driving simulator experiment, the characteristics of the steering system...

Image parameters for driving with indirect viewing systems

Indirect viewing systems such as tv cameras can potentially support drivers under low visibility conditions or when the driver's field of view (FOV) is restricted. In three experiments, we identified the critical image parameters of such systems on vehicle control. We used a taskbattery that measured lateral and longitudinal vehicle control in...

Effects of speech versus tactile driver support messages on driving behaviour and workload

In a driving simulator experiment, effects were tested of an integrated support system on driving behaviour, user acceptance and workload. An alternative workload measure was used based upon peripheral vision. Two modes of support (tactile and speech messages) were compared to a control condition without support. Subjects were confronted with...

Trade-offs between spatial and temporal resolution in driving unmanned vehicles

Remote vision for steering unmanned vehicles is generally facilitated by on-board cameras. Due to limited bandwidth data-links, a trade-off exists between spatial and temporal image resolution. In the present experiment, objective performance of military driving instructors was measured on a standardized task-battery in a fixed-base driving...

Visuele informatie in rijsimulatoren: koershouden op een rechte weg [Visual information in vehicle simulators: lateral control on a straight road]

The Royal Netherlands Army has an increasing need for advice concerning the visual information needed by a driver in a driving simulator in order to perform perceptual-motor parts of the driving task. This knowledge can be used to formulate the CGI-requirements in such a way that the cost-benefit ratio can be improved. In this connection the...

Perception of time to contact in driving simulators

When driving a car it is of vital importance that the driver is able to time his actions accurately. Estimating when objects will be reached (the time to contact or TTC) is fundamental to many driving tasks. Visual information is the drivers primary source of TTC information. The present study investigated the way this information should be...

Effects of aging and the development of automatic and controlled skills in driving

Bij de uitvoering van zowel enkel- als dubbeltaken in de IZF-rijsimulator bleek dat ouderen slechter presteren dan jongeren als er geen beroep gedaan kan worden op eerder geleerde vaardigheden.

Visuele informatie in rijsimulatoren: literatuurstudie en een onderzoeksvoorstel

Op basis van een literatuurstudie over visuele informatie voor rijsimulatoren wordt een onderzoeksplan voorgesteld gericht op optimalisering van visuele cues voor kritische onderdelen van de rijtaak.

Proposal for a new performance evaluation and feedback system for the Leopard II driving simulator

Ter vervanging van het falende "performance and Marking" systeem, bedoeld om rijprestaties van leerling-chauffeurs op de Leopard II rijsimulator te beoordelen, worden de functionele specificaties gegeven voor een nieuw "performance Evaluation and Fe

Effects of age and task integration on dual task performance

Wanneer taakintegratie in een dubbeltaak tot gevolg heeft dat de compatibiliteit tussen stimuli en handelingen afneemt of dat deeltaken meer op elkaar gaan lijken, leidt dit voor ouderen tot relatief slechte taakprestaties.

The effect of lead vehicles on speed choice under restricted sight distances

This study deals with the effect of restricted sight distance on drivers speed choice. It is hypothesized that speed choice is dependent on uncertainties with respect to road way preview. In two experiments the importance of uncertainty about the ability to respond adequately to a slow moving lead vehicle on speed choice is explored. In the...

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