It is essential to provide crucial information on the driver’s state directly to the driver – for example drowsiness – because driver impairment (even if only temporarily) can compromise the safety of the ego vehicle and other traffic participants (e.g. driver is sleeping or distracted when a TOR is issued by the ADF). These driver states need to be communicated effectively to the driver by means of one or more defined HMI channel(s). From this perspective, feedback about the driver states should be communicated, and further discussion regarding standardisation is required (Gao et al., 2019). Finally, this information on driver’s state shall be “communicated” also to the ADF, to undertake appropriate actions (e.g., minimum risk maneuver, MRM).
Main Question
Is the HVI connected with the driver monitoring function?
Sub-Questions
- Does it give feedback to the driver?
- Is it possible, in a worst case scenario, to switch off the function, in case drivers are impaired (in order to basically force them to stop and not misuse the function, going on to drive in an impaired state)?
- Are inappropriate / dangerous driver states (e.g., drowsiness, car-sickness, etc.) communicated to the driver?
References
- Gao, Z. et al. (2019) ‘EEG-based spatio–temporal convolutional neural network for driver fatigue evaluation’, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 30(9), pp. 2755–2763. doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2886414