Drive-by-wire systems: some reflections on the trend to automate the driver role
Drive-by-wire systems: some reflections on the trend to automate the driver role
The purpose of this paper is to review critically the current trend in automobile engineering toward automation of many of the functions previously performed by the driver. Working on the assumption that automation in aviation represents the basic model for driver automation, the costs and benefits of automation in aviation are explored as a means of establishing where automation of drivers' tasks is likely to yield benefits. It is concluded that there are areas where automation can provide benefits to the driver, but there are other areas where this is unlikely to be the case. Automation per se does not guarantee success, and therefore it becomes vital to involve human factors into design to identify where automation of driver functions can be allocated with a beneficial outcome for driving performance.
automation, driving, driver behaviour, allocation of function
267-276
Stanton, N.
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Marsden, P.
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1997
Stanton, N.
351a44ab-09a0-422a-a738-01df1fe0fadd
Marsden, P.
8a406ce2-334c-4b60-8452-014036755d6d
Stanton, N. and Marsden, P.
(1997)
Drive-by-wire systems: some reflections on the trend to automate the driver role.
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering, 211 (4), .
(doi:10.1243/0954407971526425).
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to review critically the current trend in automobile engineering toward automation of many of the functions previously performed by the driver. Working on the assumption that automation in aviation represents the basic model for driver automation, the costs and benefits of automation in aviation are explored as a means of establishing where automation of drivers' tasks is likely to yield benefits. It is concluded that there are areas where automation can provide benefits to the driver, but there are other areas where this is unlikely to be the case. Automation per se does not guarantee success, and therefore it becomes vital to involve human factors into design to identify where automation of driver functions can be allocated with a beneficial outcome for driving performance.
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Published date: 1997
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automation, driving, driver behaviour, allocation of function
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