This study, conducted for ethical reasons on a driving simulator, has indicated that drivers take more risks when they are being charged for their use of roadspace on the basis of time, than they do when they are not subject to such charges. This effect is highly significant for some measures of risk taking (e.g. red light violation and illegal overtaking) but less so for others. The effect is ...

In this paper, our ambition is to find a way of measuring “presence” to use it as a measure for ecological validity in driving simulators. The underlying assumption is that a person experiencing a strong sense of presence in the virtual environment will react in this environment as if it would be a real one. We propose to measure "presence" by measuring “attention” toward the driving task". Our...

In this paper we present a new concept for a driving simulator database. The database consists of a three-dimensional road network, which is not fixed like in conventional databases. The parts lying outside the viewing range of the driver can be changed during simulation. Changes in the road network are either initiated interactively by the researcher or automatically by the system based on pre...

Looking at the right place at the right time is a critical component of driving skill. Therefore, gaze guidance has the potential to become a valuable driving assistance system. In previous work, we have already shown that complex gaze-contingent stimuli can guide attention and reduce the number of accidents in a simple driving simulator. We here set out to investigate whether cues that are sim...

Emerging in-vehicle systems have turned the contemporary car into a human-computer interaction context that has its own set of rules and challenges. Interacting with in-vehicle systems while driving a car can greatly affect the driving performance and have been shown to be the cause of many road accidents. Evaluation of in-vehicle systems is a subject of much interest to developers and research...

Intelligent vehicle platoon driving is a process of the flexible formation based on the coordination between vehicle and highway in the intelligent vehicle-highway system, which can increase the controllability of traffic, simplify the complexity of traffic control, and ease the traffic pressure. It has been constructed that the intelligent vehicle platoon driving simulation experiment system u...

Biofeedback tools generally use visualizations to display physiological information to the user. As such, these tools are incompatible with visually demanding tasks such as driving. While auditory or haptic biofeedback may be used in these cases, the additional sensory channels can increase workload or act as a nuisance to the user. A number of studies, however, have shown that music can improv...

This paper presents the driver model developed by INRETS in the ISiPADAS project, with the aim to dynamically simulate driver’s mental activities carried out while driving. The methodology supporting this model development is based on empirical data collection on driving simulator, in the frame of a carfollowing task. After presenting the theoretical foundations of the modelling approach and th...

Legislators, journalists, and researchers alike have recently directed a great deal of attention to the effects of cellular telephone (‘cell phone’) use on driver behavior and performance. This paper demonstrates how cognitive modeling can aid in understanding these effects by predicting the impact of cell-phone dialing in a naturalistic driving task. We developed models of four methods of cell...

These last years have witnessed the advent of several high performance driving simulators at automotive companies and universities all over the world as well as a large use of low-cost simulators for a growing number of human factors, vehicle engineering, road traffic, and training applications. The rendering capabilities and applicability of driving simulators thus became a crucial issue both ...