Self-propelled trucks could redraw the map of the drivers’ driving and resting times. “We will investigate whether drivers actually recovering while the car is running,” says Magnus Hjälmdal, researchers at VTI.
VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute to lead a major EU project the interaction between the driver and automatic execution. The budget is 90 million, and the issue of truck drivers can be considered to rest while the car takes over the driving is one of the projects.
– It’s pretty easy to measure whether a driver is tired, you can for example record eye movements but it is not as easy to measure whether the driver is alert, and actually recover while the truck drives itself. There we have taken the help of researchers at Stockholm University and the Stress Research Institute, says Magnus Hjälmdahl.
If scientists determine that the drivers really recover in autonomous driving means that all the regulations for driving and rest periods can be repeated, at least from a security and safety point of view.
– It would be very important for the haulage industry. But it will probably take a few years before we’re done, says Magnus Hjälmdal.
The question of how advanced assistance systems in vehicles can best interact with the drivers, and the condition they are in, is the largest project VTI led. Several hundred scientists in 30 companies and organizations from across Europe will attend, and work should be in a range of sub-projects about cars, buses, trucks and motorcycles.
From VTI involved some 10 researchers, and the whole is coordinated by Magnus Hjälmdahl, research manager Anna Anund and economist Johanna Nordenrot.
The goal is to develop systems that can detect when the driver is getting tired, inattentive or under the influence of emotions angry and sad and assess how to suitably transferred to, or from, automation, depending on the driver and the car’s ability.
– We will build on existing technology but suggest improvements. There are, for example, automatic emergency brakes batting only when a collision is unavoidable. Can you connect the system with one that measures the driver’s attention, the car can maybe slow down earlier if it notices that the driver is not in the know, says Magnus Hjälmdahl.
Brand new on the course is self-propelled motorcycles.
Are they really?
– There is more about using automatic braking and steering. One of the projects is about how the bike will behave if it notices that the driver falls asleep or pass out. The goal is for it to slow down and steer to the side to stay as safe as possible.
You mean eloquently?
– Better low-speed, at the side of the road than in the 120th
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