Systematic Review of Research on Driver Distraction in the Context of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

Abstract

Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) promise improved driving performance and safety. With ADAS taking on more vehicle control tasks, the driver’s role may be reduced to that of passive supervision. This in turn may increase drivers’ engagement in non-driving-related tasks, thereby potentially reducing any promised safety benefit. We conducted a systematic review, in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, to study the relationship between ADAS use and driver distraction. Four research questions were addressed—two questions examined the effect of ADAS on secondary task engagement, and the quality of secondary task performance, and two addressed the effects of ADAS on driver attention and on driver behavior changes caused by secondary task engagement. Twenty-nine papers were selected for full text synthesis. The majority of the papers indicate an association between ADAS and increased secondary task engagement, as well as improved secondary task performance. Ten papers reported that drivers tend to divert their attention to secondary tasks and away from driving tasks. These outcomes highlight the continued importance of the role of the human driver despite vehicle automation, especially in the context of driver distraction, and that user understanding of ADAS functionalities and limitations is essential to appropriate and effective use of these systems.

Can ADAS Distract Driver’s Attention? An RGB-D Camera and Deep Learning-Based Analysis

“…This outcome suggests that the feedbacks provided by ADAS for this experiment have been designed properly, both for sound and haptic, since the driver is not distracted, but rather can receive clues to adjust the driving behavior and to maintain safe driving conditions. The risk of reducing safety benefits is the most important issue when designing ADAS [39], hence a related quantitative analysis is mandatory. In this sense, the adopted strategy for FER has delivered the expected results and proved to be suitable for this purpose.…”

Keep your hands on the wheel: The effect of driver supervision strategy on change detection, mind wandering, and gaze behavior

“…Like Tesla, Super Cruise combines auditory and visual alerts to re-engage drivers with the system (Cadillac, 2020). While the use of ADAS has been shown to reduce situation awareness and increase off-road glances (Hungund, Pai & Pradhan, 2021), the effectiveness of the hands-on-the-wheel and eyes-on-the-road driver supervision strategies on driver attention has not been well documented in the literature.…”

Revealing driver psychophysiological response to emergency braking in distracted driving based on field experiments

“…Drivers with experience in using ADAS on more vehicle control tasks, like adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping assist, may increase drivers’ engagement in distracted driving (Arkonac et al , 2019; Hungund et al , 2021; Xue et al , 2021). With the developments in the field of wearable physiological sensors (Lu et al , 2020), the additional information collected from the driver will be used to improve the ADAS.…”