Title :
Field of safe travel: Using location and motion information to increase driver acceptance of pedestrian alerts
Author :
Smith, Kip ; Källhammer, Jan-Erik
Author_Institution :
Cognitive Eng. & Decision Making, Des Moines, WA, USA
Abstract :
We investigated five contextual variables likely to influence driver acceptance of alerts to pedestrians issued by a night vision active safety system. Two of the five, pedestrian location and motion, were found to influence ratings. Hierarchical regression revealed that a nominal characterization of pedestrian location and two quantitative measures of motion explain more than 61% of the variance in driver ratings and do not interact. We discuss the implications of this finding for the specification of the system´s alerting strategies.
Keywords :
night vision; regression analysis; road safety; safety systems; driver acceptance; hierarchical regression; location information; motion information; night vision active safety system; pedestrian alerts; pedestrian location; safe travel; Context; Finite impulse response filter; Mathematical model; Night vision; Roads; Turning; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Alcala de Henares
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2119-8
DOI :
10.1109/IVS.2012.6232163
