ENSURING THE ROAD SAFETY OF IN-CAR ELECTRONICS

The interest in telematics and road safety is growing in the Netherlands. Research is initiated to use chances and to anticipate threats on road safety. The focus is on task performance of drivers. The project discussed is aiming at criteria and guidelines to test the safety of in-car electronics that can affect driver performance. During the project a checklist will be built to find the possible threats of particular applications and the best fitting standardized testing method to evaluate safety. To build the checklist a distinction is made between overload and distraction, underload and counterproductive behavioral adaptation. A further differentiation is made in perception, mental processes and motor activity. Based on the checklist it is possible to decide what type of experimentation is needed to evaluate the safety effects of an application. Workload and counterproductive behavioral adaptation can be measured. However, there is no straight forward quantitative relation between the concepts on which the checklist is based and road safety. Research combining objective measures of workload has to be combined with subjective measures of driver performance and road safety. The method the authors are developing will be evaluated using two types of applications. One application tested is an intelligent speed adaptor. The other application is a commercially available map-based in-vehicle navigation system. Research will continue with combinations of applications and the effects on road safety. Checklists and standardized testing methods will also be developed.

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• Authors:
  • Miltenburg, PGM
  • Verwey, W B
• Conference:
  • Intelligent Transportation: Realizing the Future. Abstracts of the Third World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Location: Orlando, Florida
  • Date: 1996-10-14 to 1996-10-18
• Publication Date: 1996

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: n.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Driver performance; Drivers; Driving; Electronics; Highway safety; Maps; Motor reactions; Perception; Personnel performance; Route guidance
• Uncontrolled Terms: Mental processes
• Old TRIS Terms: Driver perception
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00741568
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 15 1997 12:00AM