How Intelligent Vehicles Will Deal with All Those Human Drivers

Abstract

This presentation will offer a brief review of 20 years of experience in dealing with crash-imminent situations as self-driving cars are developed. As the trend is now towards mixing self-driving cars with human driven ones, dangerous situations are expected to increase. It is hard to teach self-driving cars that they will encounter vehicles (driven by humans) which will not obey the rules, will not cooperate, and may even act irrationally. This presentation will present recent research to address some of these problems. The focus of the Crash Imminent Safety (CrIS) UTC is to improve ground transportation safety through interdisciplinary research and development in the interplay of autonomous and intelligent vehicle systems, human factors, and injury biomechanics. Research in this area includes developing advanced accident simulators, statistical modeling, analyzing past accidents and developing autonomous vehicles. The research team includes over 20 faculty and researchers working at OSU and its partner Universities at Indiana University-Purdue University, North Carolina A&T State University, University of Massachusetts- Amherst, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Sponsored by: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (OST-R), University Transportation Centers Program

DISCLAIMER: The views, opinions, findings and conclusions reflected in this presentation are the responsibility of the authors only and do not represent the official policy or position of the USDOT/OST-R, or any State or other entity.

For more information, contact Denise E. Dunn at denise.e.dunn@dot.gov