An Analysis of Driver's Avoiding Maneuver in a Highly Emergency Situation

Makoto Itoh (1) , Marie-Pierre Pacaux-Lemoine (2) , Frédéric Robache (2) , Hervé Morvan (2)

1 Université de Tsukuba = University of Tsukuba
2 LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201

This paper discusses driver’s emergency avoiding behavior while he or she is driving a car in a rural area.Based on behavioral data obtained from an experiment conducted in France with a high-fidelity driving simulator, theauthors analyzed the driver behavior just before the collision. The results showed that the drivers tended to choose a“rational” behavior to avoid the collision by using the available visual cues even though the situation is extremely timecritical, i.e., the time to collision was only approximately 1.5 seconds

Mots clés: Emergency; Automobile; Collision avoidance; Driving assistance

Domaines: Automatique / Robotique; Mécanique [physics.med-ph]

Makoto Itoh, Marie-Pierre Pacaux-Lemoine, Frédéric Robache, Hervé Morvan. An Analysis of Driver's Avoiding Maneuver in a Highly Emergency Situation. SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration, 2015, 8 (1), pp.27-33. ⟨10.9746/jcmsi.8.27⟩. ⟨hal-03404355⟩