Citation

Cheng B, Hashimoto M, Suetomi T. JSAE Rev. 2002; 23(2): 231-237.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0389-4304(02)00162-5

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper describes research on drivers' responses to a forward vehicle collision warning by driving simulator experiments in which 36 subjects were disposed randomly to the following three kinds of dangerous scenes while the subjects were intentionally distracted: closing to a preceding vehicle, sudden cut-in of a vehicle from an adjacent lane, and lane departure of own vehicle. The responses of the subjects to the warning against cut-in vehicles were analyzed. It is shown that the subjects could take proper evasive action, but the average brake response time was longer than those for simpler scenario tests. It is also verified that there were statistically significant effects of warning sound on the subjects' response times.