Effects of a driver assistance system with foresighted deceleration control on the driving performance of elderly and younger drivers

It is imperative to enhance the safety of elderly individuals on the roads to ensure the quality of their daily life. Near-miss incidents or accidents at blind intersections often result from a conflict between the behaviors of the driver and of other road users (pedestrians and cyclists). The failure to search for potential conflict in the context of blind intersections is a concern pertaining to road safety. The proposed assistance system performs a proactive braking intervention to achieve a referenced velocity in uncertain situations, such as one in which an unobserved pedestrian might initiate a road crossing. The proactive braking intervention attempts to manage the potential risk of crashing with respect to covert hazards. Because an automated system may impair a human’s ability to perceive and respond to hazardous situations while driving, this study was designed to examine the effects of proactive braking intervention and visual support cues on elderly and younger drivers’ ability to respond to information about potentially hazardous situations. The authors conducted a public-road driving experiment involving 108 elderly and younger drivers from two non-overlapping age groups. It was observed that the vehicle slowdown realized through the proactive braking intervention enabled the drivers to perform safety confirmation near blind spots and caused them to be more sensitive to and wary of potential hazards. This approach could be effective not only for elderly drivers, but also for young or inexperienced ones.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2020.12.017
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136984782100005X
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  • © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Saito, Yuichi
  • Yoshimi, Ryoma
  • Kume, Shinichi
  • Imai, Masahiro
  • Yamasaki, Akito
  • Ito, Takuma
  • Inoue, Shintaro
  • Shimizu, Tsukasa
  • Nagai, Masao
  • Inoue, Hideo
  • Raksincharoensak, Pongsathorn
• Publication Date: 2021-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 221-235
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
  • Volume: 77
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1369-8478
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13698478

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged drivers; Blind spots; Braking; Deceleration; Driver performance; Driver support systems; Drivers; Hazards; Highway safety; Intersections; Recently qualified drivers; Young adults
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01767788
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 23 2021 11:13AM