Differences in perceptual and cognitive abilities between the young and elderly have implications for in-car tasks. As a primary example, although in-car navigation systems enhance situational awareness, this comes at the cost of increasing visual distraction and cognitive load. To address these shortcomings, this paper explores the efficacy of multi-modal cues for providing route guidance info...

OBJECTIVE Young drivers are at greatest risk of injury or death from a car crash in the first 6 months of independent driving. In Queensland, the graduated driver licensing (GDL) program was extensively modified in July 2007 in order to reduce this risk. Increased mileage and car ownership have been found to play a role in risky driving, offenses, and crashes; however, GDL programs typically do...

According to several statistics the majority of the Car accidents are caused by highspeedand disrespect of the inter-vehicles security distance. In spite of this, more than 60% of drivers do not comply with speed limits on urban roads or trunk roads. The worst situation is when a trunk road passes through a village. There, almost 80% of drivers break the speed limit. In order to give to drivers...

On winding roads, car drivers have to control speed and steering angle in order to keep the car in an optimal lane position. Among the strategies proposed for steering regulation are the use of the tangent point, a geometrical method, and gaze sampling, in which retinal flow lines obtained by tracking a spot on the future road need to be assessed. Previous studies used a variety of scenarios (r...

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We present the Road Talk application which is a mobile message system for car drivers. It is designed to allow messaging while driving, for instance, sending notes to surrounding drivers to tell them about hazards. The user annotates the road with audio recordings, typically voice memos. This annotation is location-based, which means that messages are automatically coupled to the location where...

Automobile use has greatly increased during the last few decades. The number of passenger kilometers by private car per capita increased by 90 percent in Western Europe and 13 percent in the US between 1970 and 1990. In 1990, the average number of passenger kilometers travelled by private car in the US (18,650 km) was more than double the Western European figure (8710 km; OECD, 1996). The numbe...

Secondary safety refers to mitigation of injury given that a crash occurs, as distinct from prevention of crashes. Evidence is presented that secondary safety of new cars has been improving substantially in recent years. (a) Single-car crashes, South Australia. The later the year of the car, the smaller is the probability of the driver being killed. (b) Car-car collisions, South Australia. Comp...

Car parking has become an immense issue, especially in big cities. There are two main reasons: Firstly, the growth in population, secondly, the security. Moreover, the car theft has become an evil art haunting drivers. In this paper, we provide an interface and a software/ hardware module for Intelligent Car Park Management System (ICPMS). The ICPMS will provide an extensive management for vehi...

The paper presents research on user modelling for an in-car spoken dialogue system, including the implementation of a generic user modelling module applied to the modelling of drivers’ task objectives.