Improving Take-over Situation by Active Communication
This addresses safety for drivers in autonomous vehicles, but it is incremental as it only sketches an idea without implementation.
The paper tackles the problem of helping drivers regain control of autonomous vehicles after extended autonomous driving by proposing that clear communication about environmental objects improves situational understanding, but it does not present results or concrete numbers.
In this short paper an idea is sketched, how to support drivers of an autonomous vehicle in taking back control of the vehicle after a longer section of autonomous cruising. The hypothesis is that a clear communication about the location and behavior of relevant objects in the environment will help the driver to quickly grasp the situational context and thus support drivers in safely handling the ongoing driving situation manually after take-over. Based on this hypothesis, a research concept is sketched, which entails the necessary components as well as the disciplines involved.