Emerging phenomena during driving interactions

Abstract

AmI technology is able to help people in many areas of life. Concerning car driving, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) deliver information, give recommendations, and assist drivers. These new technologies have to be analysed carefully, in order to optimize usability, road safety, efficiency, and emotional climate. The chapter describes potential emerging effects of future ADAS (e.g. Efficient Cruise Control) on driver behaviour (including cognitive-emotional mechanisms) by experimental studies using driving simulators. Besides individual level effects, the chapter focusses on group level effects and shows a way how effects on system level (e.g. traffic flow) can be investigated. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.