Abstract
There appears to be a lack of new ideas in driver behavior modeling. An analysis of what is wrong has led to the conclusion that human factors research in the area of driver behavior has hardly been touched by the "cognitive revolution" that swept psychology in the past fifteen years. A more cognitive approach might seem advisable and the "promise of progress" of such an approach should be assessed. The past twenty years have, of course, given us many insights that will remain applicable, provided they can be made to fit a cognitive frame of reference. The major categories of models of the past two decades are reviewed in order to pinpoint their strengths- and perhaps their weakness- in that framework.