Automated Vehicles - PowerPoint

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What happens when we have unrealistic standards?

  • Outsized reaction in the face of inevitable accidents
    • Drivers of Tesla's should have their eyes on the road at all times
      • This is very hard if nothing happens for a long time

What is Human Machine Interface?

  • Vehicle + human = joint cognitive system
  • The HMI provides continuous interaction between human and vehicle

What are the main HMI challanges?

Minimize mode error
  • Can the automated system:
    • Handle longitdudinal and lateral control?
    • Manoeuvre in the current environment and situation (roundabout)?
    • Perform strategic aspects of driving (can it autonomously switch lanes or switch lanes)?
  • Very dangerous if the driver can't answer the questions

Stimulate appropriate level of attention and intervention
  • Lvl 2: Attention to the roads needs to be as high as during manual driving
  • The higher the reliability of the system, the lower the attention, the higher the impact of a failure
Minimize automation surprises
  • Two types:
    • Absence of expected action
    • Presence of unexpected action
  • Solution: healthbar or heartbeat of the car (HMI)
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What are external HMI challenges?

Communication
  • Intention!

Scalability
  • Busy crossroad
  • For who is the message meant?

Colour
  • Compliance with road regulations
  • Red, green, yellow, blue can generate confusion so can't be used
  • Cyan!

How do you investigate on the road?

Seatsuit, how do pedestrians react to a self driving car? Not different

What is trust in automation?

Trust is “the attitude that an agent will help achieve an individual’s goals in a situation characterized by uncertainty and vulnerability”

  • Uncertainty and vulnerability
  • Not a unidimensional construct
  • Situation specific 

What factors do strongly influence dispositional trust?

Overall tendency to trust automation
  • Culture
  • Age
  • Gender
  • Personality 

What is situational trust?

Trust experienced in a specific situation
External variability
  • Weather conditions
  • Road conditions
Internal variability 
  • Self confidence
  • Mood 

What is dynamic learned trust?

Trust that users develop over time, based on the skills and knowledge acquired through past experiences and interactions with the system
More slow, develops based on all the different situations that happen on the road.

What is trust calibration? What are the guidelines?

  • Avoiding overtrust and undertrust


  • Design for appropriate trust, not greater trust
  • Show the purpose of the automation in a comprehensible way to the operators
  • Train operaters regarding its expected reliability
  • Carefully evaluate any anthropomorphizing of the automation (adding avatars, voices, human elements)
    • Be careful because can increase trust but this does not correspond to appropriate trust

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