Driver´s behaviors and human-machine interactions characterization for the design of an advanced driving assistance system

This paper presents the study of a particular form of human-machine cooperation in order to define and evaluate a system which is able to control the intervehicle distance according to the environment, the driver´s behaviors and his/her wish to cooperate with the system. This study highlights the ACC´s limits to control the distance headway with the front vehicle in some traffic situations on motorway and A-class road and tries to identify the driver´s needs in order to take them into account to design an auto-adaptive cruise control prototype.