SIS35:  Human Factors Challenges of Vehicle Automation

Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 Time: 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Location: Cobo 141

The session will report on the achievements of the European Project VRA (Vehicle Road Automation) with particular emphasis on the discussions around the human factors challenges of automated vehicles.

The session will also report on the latest status of a document being prepared for the Tri Lateral Working Group on Automation in Road Transportation, which aims to “Identify, research, quantify, and evaluate applications that would improve the operation of Connected Road Vehicle Automation.” The aim of the Tri Lateral group is also to Co-ordinate research between U.S., EU and Japan on “the development of Connected Road Vehicle Automation technologies and concepts that facilitate deployment and market uptake.”

The session will also disseminate results from a number of recently completed projects in EU, U.S. and Japan, on human factors of automated driving and provide the audience with a chance to test and automated curve negotiation task, using a coupled driving simulator.

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Organizer
Natasha Merat, Associate Professor University of Leeds, UK
Moderators
Natasha Merat, Associate Professor University of Leeds, UK
Nick Reed, Principal Human Factors Researcher, Transport Research Laboratory, UK

Speakers
Natasha Merat, Associate Professor, University of Leeds, UK
Nick Read, Principal Human Factors Researcher, Transport Research Laboratory, UK
James Foley, Principal Human Factors Engineer, Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Centre, USA
Janet Creaser, Researcher, University of Minnesota, USA
Toshitake Kawai, Chief Engineer, Honda, Japan
Erwin Boer, Director, Steering Entropy Ltd., USA

 

 

Original author: Davide Brizzolara