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AIST TODAYNo.13 Summer 2004


Do You Know How You Drive a Car?


In order to understand how people drive a car in a real road environment, quantitative behavioral data of a hundred drivers were collected using equipped vehicles. The collected data were stored to establish a driving behavior database for convenient use in industry. We also have applied the database to develop a driving assistance system based on the driver’s behavior. Focusing on deceleration maneuver when approaching to an intersection with a stop sign, we identified range of the normal driving behavior. Based on a concept that the driving risk increases when a driving situation is out of the range of the normal driving, an on-board driving assistance system has been developed that gives a caution information to the driver when the driver behaves differently from the normal driving.

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The on-board system evaluates the level of deviation from the normal driving behavior when approaching to an intersection. A large number of the braking maneuver data is stored in the on-board computer and it is compared with the sensed braking maneuver. When the maneuver at the moment is out of range of normal driving, the alerting signal is given to the driver to inform that the driving risk is increasing.

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