Sharing the Road: How Human Drivers Interact with Autonomous Vehicles on Highways

With more autonomous vehicles (AVs) being tested or deployed on public roads, human-driven (HVs) have to share the road with AVs. However, human drivers may not interact AVs same way as they HVs. Very few studies investigated drivers’ behaviors when sharing Based a real-world dataset, our study explored interactions in two types of events highway, i.e., car-following event and car-passing event. The results show that, compared interacting HVs, tended keep larger safety margin (i.e., gap distance time gap) at high speed both At time, seemed difficulty anticipating AVs’ changes speed, indicated by standard deviation HVs’ smaller collision following versus