The number of cars provided with an in-car communication system has considerably increased during the past few years. Using a mobile phone whilst driving is a safety-critical task and can cause usability issues. Speech modality has been incorporated in order to allocate hands and eyes solely to the driving task speech. This paper discusses an investigation into in-car communication systems and ...

OBJECTIVE To find an association between cognitive-perceptual problems of older drivers and unsafe driving performance during simulated automobile driving in a virtual environment. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING A driver evaluation clinic in a rehabilitation hospital. PARTICIPANTS Fifty-five drivers aged 65 years or older and 48 drivers in their late twenties to early forties. ME...

OBJECTIVES Recent studies have started to explore the implementation of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) as part of driving assistant systems. The current study presents an EEG-based BCI that decodes error-related brain activity. Such information can be used, e.g., to predict driver's intended turning direction before reaching road intersections. APPROACH We executed experiments in a car simul...

Recently, it is necessary to develop a new system which assists driving car and wheelchair as aged society. The final our purpose in this research is to contribute to developing of assistive robot and related-apparatus. In terms of developing a new system, we thought that it is important to examine behaviors as well as spatial recognition. Therefore, experiments have been performed for an exami...

Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) is associated with the risk of sleepiness-related car accidents and worse driving simulator performances. Nevertheless, driving simulator studies failed to predict the real-world accident risk. Two-thirds of patients with OSAS will never experience a car crash, so that restricting their driving licence because of an OSAS diagnosis is not feasible.

Continuous intra-arterial blood pressure recordings during motor car driving were performed in 15 patients with untreated essential hypertension, using the "Oxford" recording technique. Each subject was an experienced driver who used his car every day, and for the study drove from his work place to the hospital during the later afternoon. This drive took place in urban traffic and the average d...