Take-Over Performance and Safety Analysis Under Different Scenarios and Secondary Tasks in Conditionally Automated Driving
DOI: 10.1109/access.2019.2914864
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This study investigates the impact of roadway environments and secondary tasks on driver take-over performance and safety in conditionally automated driving. The research addresses the unique workload challenges in Level 3 automation, where drivers may experience low cognitive load during system operation but face sudden, high-demand requirements when a take-over request (TOR) is issued. The authors aim to clarify how different scenarios and non-driving tasks influence reaction times, workload, and safety metrics, providing data to inform safety evaluations and best practices for control transitions. The experiment utilized a real vehicle-based driving simulator with 28 participants, including university staff and professional taxi drivers. The study employed a repeated-measures design with three secondary task conditions: manual driving (no secondary task), a 1-back cognitive task (oral Q&A), and a letter game task (visual mobile phone game). Participants navigated three scenarios: a non-critical scenario with a stationary vehicle in an adjacent lane, and two critical scenarios involving obstacles in the ego lane, one of which included a visual obstruction by a leading SUV. A TOR lead time of seven seconds was used across all automated conditions. Data collected included braking and steering reaction times, take-over time, maximum deceleration, time to collision (TTC), and subjective workload measured via the NASA-TLX questionnaire. Results indicated that both scenario type and secondary tasks significantly affected take-over characteristics. Steering reactions were consistently slower than braking reactions, suggesting lateral control requires more cognitive processing. In critical scenarios, braking alone was often insufficient, necessitating steering maneuvers. Visual secondary tasks, particularly the letter game, significantly increased steering reaction times and overall take-over times compared to manual driving or the cognitive 1-back task. While the 1-back task resulted in slower braking reactions, the letter game task led to slower steering reactions. Subjective workload was highest during the 1-back task and lowest during manual driving. Despite these delays, minimum TTC values remained above the critical one-second threshold, indicating that collisions were avoided, though safety margins were reduced in complex scenarios. The findings highlight that lateral control operations are more cognitively demanding and time-consuming than longitudinal braking, especially when drivers are engaged in visual secondary tasks or face obscured obstacles. The study concludes that secondary tasks do not uniformly improve or degrade performance; rather, their impact depends on the sensory modality involved and the specific driving maneuver required. These results provide empirical evidence for designing safer take-over protocols and evaluating the risks associated with different secondary tasks in conditionally automated vehicles.
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