The future of advanced driving assistance system development in China

Abstract

Nowadays, with the rapid development of vehicle industry in China, an increasing number of companies realized the importance of culture adaption, when implementing ADAS (Advanced Driving Assistance System) to the vehicles in China. However, some designing issues of these systems need to be solved, taking consideration of driver's behavior and traffic situation in China. There is a lack of studies on Chinese drivers and related to HMI design of ADAS systems in the literature. There are limited reports on Chinese traffic and drivers studies, but still lack of the necessary depth. Some interaction design methodologies, including personas, focus group study, questionnaire and so on, were used in these reports. However, these studies are neither intensive nor comprehensive. Although (part of) the issues are brought up and analyzed, only general solutions are mentioned for the designing of the systems. Present paper, through literature review, indicated different areas that need to be focused on that are related to culture issues and the possible methodologies that can be applied.

Influence of lane departure warnings onset and reliability on car drivers' behaviors

“…This indicates that the nature of the assistance error is determinant on drivers' acceptance and its related use. Reinforcing the idea that false warnings are responsible for LDWS being considered as a highly annoying assistance (Braitman et al, 2010;Duan and Chen, 2011) often disengaged by drivers (Eichelberger and McCartt, 2014;Reagan and McCartt, 2016). The solution suggested here to encourage drivers to use LDWS would be to reduce as much as possible, false warnings, even it comes at the price of an increase of the risk of missed warnings.…”

“…Those results are complemented by a survey conducted on 343 UK, Swedish and Chinese drivers that were asked to assess the usefulness of 10 "information enhancement systems" on a five-point scale from 1 (not useful) to 5 (very useful). LDWS were evaluated as the less useful assistance with 2,67 points on the average (Duan and Chen, 2011). Additionally, among various assistance devices (i.e.…”

Letting Drivers Know What is Going on in Traffic

“…The major differences in traffic design and driver behavior between China and Western countries by implication is that the HMI design of ADAS for drivers in Western countries may not necessarily be optimal in other markets [50,51]. Lindgren et al [52] pointed out that a system considered useful in one country can be seen as almost worthless (or even harmful) in another, and system settings feasible in one part of the world may not be suitable on the other side of the globe.…”

Same, Same but Different

“…Within the design and development of automotive Human Machine Interface (HMI), there has traditionally been a focus on the needs and preferences of the drivers from mature markets [16]. However, many Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), that have gained notable success in mature markets, have failed in emerging markets [2]. As a consequence, the importance of cross-regional issues within the design of an automotive HMI system has been acknowledged by different studies [13,15,17,31].…”