Today’s sensor technologies together with high quality vehicle controllers already allow automatic driver assistance systems. Automatic adaptive cruise control as a first representative of the new dimension of assistance systems is already available in today’s cars. Tomorrow’s world will provide the driver with partly autonomous systems that allow him to leave the complete control over his vehicle to a computer in many phases within real traffic. At the same time the demand for mobility also influences other fields of research. Telematics technologies already allow the „mobile office“. The combination of these two technologies, telematics and automated driving, by an intelligent driver interface opens a new dimension for the future: While the driver leaves the control over his vehicle to the computer, he can temporarily focus his attention on selected office applications. That is the main aspect this paper deals with. With a technical feasibility of automated driving functions, the role of the driver becomes more and more important for researchers. Since automated driving functions will first cover certain domains like highway cruising or stop&go traffic, the key question is the hand-over between computer and driver. This hand-over situation is subject of a simulator study and first results and impacts concerning the design of autonomous systems on the road are pointed out. (Author/publisher)
Samenvatting