Recently there has been a trend toward increasing the capability of the in-vehicle interface in terms of access to information and complex controls. This has been accompanied by an increase in the complexity of the car Human Machine Interface [HMI]. At the same time, studies have shown that driver distraction can contribute to accidents. This paper provides some possible ways to reduce driver c...

Wildlife warning signs are the most commonly used and widespread form of road impact mitigation, aimed at reducing the incidence of wildlife-vehicle collisions. Evidence of the effectiveness of currently used signs is rare and often indicates minimal change in driver behaviour. Improving the design of these signs to increase the likelihood of appropriate driver response has the potential to red...

The last decade has witnessed the introduction of several driver assistance and active safety systems in modern vehicles. Considering only systems that depend on computer vision, several independent applications have emerged such as lane tracking, road/traffic sign recognition, and pedestrian/vehicle detection. Although these methods can assist the driver for lane keeping, navigation, and colli...

Successful modeling and simulation of driver behavior is important for the current industrial thrust of computer-based vehicle development. The main contribution of this paper is the development of an adaptive lateral preview human driver model. This driver model template has a few parameters that can be adjusted to simulate steering actions of human drivers with different driving styles. In ot...

The work reported here was part of a program of research on how warning lamps affect driver vision, and how those lamps can be designed to provide the most benefit for the safety of emergency vehicle operations. In order to understand the overall effects of lamps on safety, it is necessary to know about the positive (intended) effects of the lamps on vehicle conspicuity, as well as any negative...

Driver distraction has become a major concern for transportation safety due to increasing use of infotainment systems in vehicles. To reduce safety risks, it is crucial to understand how fundamental aspects of distracting activities affect driver behavior at different levels of vehicle control. This study used a simulator-based experiment to assess the effects of visual, cognitive and simultane...

background: motor vehicle crashes (mvc) are considered to be the most common safety challenge, causing more than a million deaths worldwide annually. objectives: the current study was aimed at identifying the etiological role of human and vehicle safety factors in road crashes, and their effects on the severity of injury and fatality in the sistan and baluchistan province, south east iran. pati...

Communication technologies and the management of context aware information are two key researching lines in the intelligent transportation domain. A suited network infrastructure which allows Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communications, on one hand, and the provision of location-based information adapted to the driver, on the other hand, comprise two important co...

The objective of this study was to identify task and vehicle factors that may affect driver situation awareness (SA) and its relationship to performance, particularly in strategic (navigation) tasks. An experiment was conducted to assess the effects of in-vehicle navigation aids and reliability on driver SA and performance in a simulated navigation task. A total of 20 participants drove a virtu...

Present Automobiles are being developed by more of electrical parts for efficient operation. Generally a vehicle was built with an analog driver-vehicle interface for indicating various vehicle status like speed, fuel level, Engine temperature etc., This paper presents the development and implementation of a digital driving system for a semi-autonomous vehicle to improve the driver-vehicle inte...