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Automated driving aims to enhance traffic safety. However, as long as drivers have the opportunity to take back manual control of the automated vehicle, they can disable automation to drive manually at any time. For an increase in traffic safety, this driver-initiated driver control should not occur in safety-critical situations when the automated system works faultlessly. In this driving simulator study, factors influencing the decision to take back manual control of an automated vehicle were investigated. Participants (N = 46) were driven by an automated system on a two-lane country road behind a slow vehicle. The visual range was restricted by fog. Therefore, the automation did not perform an overtaking maneuver. The automation could be disabled by the driver to overtake the preceding vehicle by performing a safety-critical maneuver. The influences of impulsivity and sensation seeking as well as three automation feedback systems on the decision to take back manual control were examined. Results indicated that high sensation seeking as well as high impulsivity were associated with an earlier deactivation of the automation. Though, driver-initiated driver control was not influenced by the different automation feedback systems. This experiment provides insights into factors influencing driver-initiated driver control, which might be useful for the development of automated driving systems and guidelines for automated driving.
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This work was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the funding code 03IHS024D and within the project “CAD Japan Germany: HF” as well as by the Carl-Zeiss-Scholarship for PhD students. The authors are responsible for the content of this publication.
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Leitner, J., Hock, P., Baumann, M. (2021). Personality Influences on Drivers’ Decision to Take Back Manual Control: A Simulator Study on Automated Driving. In: Black, N.L., Neumann, W.P., Noy, I. (eds) Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021). IEA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 221. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74608-7_89
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