Behavioural adaptation to adaptive cruise control (ACC): implications for preventive strategies

Distributed Cognition on the road: Using EAST to explore future road transportation systems

“…Perceptions of competence and expectancy can all impact upon the way in which agents interact on the road (e.g. Rudin-Brown & Parker, 2004).…”

Behavioural changes in drivers experiencing highly-automated vehicle control in varying traffic conditions

“…Endsley (1995) suggests that good situation awareness is achieved by a strong appreciation of the driving environment at three distinct levels: perception, comprehension and projection. Reduced awareness has been associated with a delay in an appropriate braking response when faced with failures in ACC both in a driving simulator (Young and Stanton, 2007) and in more naturalistic, test-track conditions (Rudin-Brown and Parker, 2004). Similar work has also uncovered complacency and delay when drivers are confronted by the malfunction of lane keeping systems (Desmond, Hancock and Monette, 1998).…”

Vehicle-based studies of driving in the real world: The hard truth?

“…Given the well documented influence of personality and attitudes on driving behaviour, many on-road trials incorporate a battery of psychometric measures. For example, studies have suggested that high sensation seekers drive more recklessly (Burns and Wilde, 1995;Jonah, 1997), whilst Rudin- Brown and Parker (2004) suggest that those with an internal locus of control (Rotter, 1966) adapt differently to ACC, compared to those with an external locus of control. Saad (2006, p.178) concludes that such findings "reveal that some individual characteristics seem to amplify the behavioural changes observed when driving with new systems and influence the drivers' subjective assessments of the impact of the systems on their driving."…”