Print Email Facebook Twitter Effects of adaptive cruise control and highly automated driving on workload and situation awareness Title Effects of adaptive cruise control and highly automated driving on workload and situation awareness: A review of the empirical evidence Author de Winter, J.C.F. (TU Delft Medical Instruments & Bio-Inspired Technology) Happee, R. (TU Delft Biomechatronics & Human-Machine Control) Martens, M.H. (University of Twente; TNO) Stanton, N.A. (University of Southampton) Date 2014 Abstract Adaptive cruise control (ACC), a driver assistance system that controls longitudinal motion, has been introduced in consumer cars in 1995. A next milestone is highly automated driving (HAD), a system that automates both longitudinal and lateral motion. We investigated the effects of ACC and HAD on drivers’ workload and situation awareness through a meta-analysis and narrative review of simulator and on-road studies. Based on a total of 32 studies, the unweighted mean self-reported workload was 43.5% for manual driving, 38.6% for ACC driving, and 22.7% for HAD (0% = minimum, 100 = maximum on the NASA Task Load Index or Rating Scale Mental Effort). Based on 12 studies, the number of tasks completed on an in-vehicle display relative to manual driving (100%) was 112% for ACC and 261% for HAD. Drivers of a highly automated car, and to a lesser extent ACC drivers, are likely to pick up tasks that are unrelated to driving. Both ACC and HAD can result in improved situation awareness compared to manual driving if drivers are motivated or instructed to detect objects in the environment. However, if drivers are engaged in non-driving tasks, situation awareness deteriorates for ACC and HAD compared to manual driving. The results of this review are consistent with the hypothesis that, from a Human Factors perspective, HAD is markedly different from ACC driving, because the driver of a highly automated car has the possibility, for better or worse, to divert attention to secondary tasks, whereas an ACC driver still has to attend to the roadway. Subject Human FactorsLevels of automationDriving simulatorMeta-analysisNASA Task Load IndexSecondary taskDistractionAttentionEye movementsPsychophysiology To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5ada23fd-2b15-4566-bff4-0583c6e81d23 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2014.06.016 Embargo date 2015-02-12 ISSN 1369-8478 Source Transportation Research. Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 27 (Part B), 196-217 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2014 J.C.F. de Winter, R. Happee, M.H. Martens, N.A. Stanton Files PDF 1_s2.0_S1369847814000904_main.pdf 880.18 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5ada23fd-2b15-4566-bff4-0583c6e81d23/datastream/OBJ/view