DRIVER INATTENTION

Driver Inattention , Driver Distraction and Traffic Crashes

ITE JOURNAL / JULY 2003 INTRODUCTION The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has estimated that driver inattention is a causative factor in 25–30 percent of police-reported traffic crashes in the United States— approximately 1.2 million crashes per year.1,2 An inattentive driver may be distracted temporarily from the driving task by something inside or outside the vehicle, ma...

A visual approach for driver inattention detection

Monitoring driver fatigue, inattention, and lack of sleep is very important in preventing motor vehicles accidents. A visual system for automatic driver vigilance has to address two fundamental problems. First of all, it has to analyze the sequence of images and detect if the driver has his eyes open or closed, and then it has to evaluate the temporal occurrence of eyes open to estimate the dri...

Towards an understanding of driver inattention: taxonomy and theory.

There is little agreement in the scientific literature about what the terms "driver distraction" and "driver inattention" mean, and what the relationship is between them. In 2011, Regan, Hallett and Gordon proposed a taxonomy of driver inattention in which driver distraction is conceptualized as just one of several processes that give rise to driver inattention. Since publication of that paper,...

Driver Inattention Detection based on Eye Gaze - Road Event Correlation

Current road safety initiatives are approaching the limit of their effectiveness in developed countries. A paradigm shift is needed to address the preventable deaths of thousands on our roads. Previous systems have focused on one or two aspects of driving: environmental sensing, vehicle dynamics or driver monitoring. Our approach is to consider the driver and the vehicle as part of a combined s...

An Investigation of Motor Vehicle Driver Inattention and Its Effects at Highway-rail Grade Crossings