Driver distraction trends and issues

Developing a safer HMI for secondary controls without compromising the primary function of driving has become a major challenge for automobile manufacturers. Most automotive manufacturers designed menu-based secondary control interfaces to reduce the number of individual controls. Three main technologies that have been developed to input commands into these menu-based interfaces; touch screens, central controllers, and speech recognition. The reduction in individual controls is achieved by the touch screen often means an increase in the number of steps needed via the menus to operate a simple control