Open AccessHolistic assessment of driver assistance systems: how can systems be assessed with respect to how they impact glance behaviour and collision avoidance?
Author(s) -
Bärgman Jonas,
Victor Trent
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iet intelligent transport systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.579
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1751-9578
pISSN - 1751-956X
DOI - 10.1049/iet-its.2018.5550
Subject(s) - advanced driver assistance systems , cruise control , collision , collision avoidance , active safety , counterfactual thinking , warning system , risk analysis (engineering) , lane departure warning system , computer science , engineering , simulation , control (management) , computer security , automotive engineering , transport engineering , artificial intelligence , psychology , business , social psychology , telecommunications
This study demonstrates the need for a holistic safety‐impact assessment of an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) and its effect on eye‐glance behaviour. It implements a substantial incremental development of the what‐if (counterfactual) simulation methodology, applied to rear‐end crashes from the SHRP2 naturalistic driving data. This assessment combines (i) the impact of the change in drivers’ off‐road glance behaviour due to the presence of the ADAS, and (ii) the safety impact of the ADAS alone. The results illustrate how the safety benefit of forward collision warning and autonomous emergency braking, in combination with adaptive cruise control (ACC) and driver assist (DA) systems, may almost completely dominate the safety impact of the longer off‐road glances that activated ACC and DA systems may induce. Further, this effect is shown to be robust to induced system failures. The accuracy of these results is tempered by outlined limitations, which future estimations will benefit from addressing. On the whole, this study is a further step towards a successively more accurate holistic risk assessment which includes driver behavioural responses such as off‐road glances together with the safety effects provided by the ADAS.