Citation

Horikome T, Itoh M, Inagaki T. Trans. Soc. Automot. Eng. Jpn. 2013; 44(2): 613-619.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan)

DOI

10.11351/jsaeronbun.44.613

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper investigates effectiveness and driver acceptance of two types of driver support systems for collision avoidance with an automatic steering function. When the host vehicle is coming close to a pedestrian, either system sets off an alert to the driver and initiates a collision avoidance maneuver upon detecting the driver's action to brake or to steer the wheels. If the driver does not react to the alert, the first driver support system applies no control in the situation. On the other hand, the second driver support system that is proposed in this paper has a partially autonomous function to initiate a collision avoidance maneuver when it determines that the car is coming too close to the pedestrian. A cognitive experiment has been conducted with a driving simulator to investigate whether the safety is improved by the systems and whether the participants accept the two support system's control.

Language: ja

Keywords

active safety; collision avoidance; driver behavior; driver support; safety