Conference Proceeding

Curve Negotiation: Identifying Driver Behavior Around Curves with the Driver Performance Database

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Abstract

Approximately one quarter of all accidents outside city limits occur while driving around curves, where assistance systems could prevent the driver from negotiating curves with excessive speed. This study argues that the parameterizing of a Driving Assistant System could be realized with data from realistic, noncritical driving behavior offered by Naturalistic Driving Studies. The Driver Performance Database presented in this study provides a tool for observing normal, noncritical driving behavior. The Database contains results from road tests with an instrumented vehicle that were carried out on public road traffic on a predetermined route, which was precisely measured in advance. In addition to vehicle state parameters, we also collected data concerning the driving environment and physiological information. With the Driver Performance Database it is possible to generate different facets of human driving behavior in a descriptive and normative way, which is illustrated by driver behavior in curve negotiation.

How to Cite:

Mikolajetz, A. & Henning, M. & Tenzer, A. & Zobel, R. & Krems, J. & Petzoldt, T., (2009) “Curve Negotiation: Identifying Driver Behavior Around Curves with the Driver Performance Database”, Driving Assessment Conference 5(2009), 391-397. doi: https://doi.org/10.17077/drivingassessment.1348

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