Title: Study of safety driving assistant system using audio-visual alert

Authors: Seunghee Hong; Shun'ichi Doi; Byungchan Min

Addresses: Department of Intelligent Mechanical System Engineering, Kagawa University, 2217-20, Hayashi-cho, Takamatsu, Kagawa, 761-0369, Japan ' Department of Intelligent Mechanical System Engineering, Kagawa University, 2217-20, Hayashi-cho, Takamatsu, Kagawa, 761-0369, Japan ' Department of Industrial Management Engineering, Hanbat National University, 4-218, Deongmyeong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-719, Korea

Abstract: Human factors have been found to be the major cause of vehicle accidents. Concerning the primary safety in vehicles, adaptive driving-supports with individual operational ability as well as driving contexts are necessary for preventing accidents. Safety driving assist systems are classified into three phases as paying attentions for driver, alerting the dangerous situation and letting the urgent avoiding operation according to the amount of the emergency. The items of these systems are composed with visual and auditory devices depending on the human sensitivities. In this paper, for assisting and letting the driver to pay attention for recognising the surroundings, to notice the traffic situation and also to decide to make for safer driving, the combinations of driving assistant systems were designed with audio-visual alerts and the effects of these systems were also verified for old drivers.

Keywords: DAS; driver assistance systems; audio alerts; visual alerts; driving simulator; on-road study; intersection; collision avoidance; old drivers; elderly drivers; young drivers; driver behaviour; vehicle safety.

DOI: 10.1504/IJVS.2014.058241

International Journal of Vehicle Safety, 2014 Vol.7 No.1, pp.54 - 69

Received: 10 Feb 2012
Accepted: 16 Jan 2013

Published online: 30 Oct 2014 *

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