The influence of age on the take-over of vehicle control in highly automated driving

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 39, Issue , 2016, Pages 19-32

  Körber, Moritz ^a   Gold, Christian ^a   Lechner, David ^a   Bengler, Klaus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Automated driving; Human automation interaction; Non driving task; Traffic density

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; ROADS AND STREETS; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLES;

AUTOMATED DRIVING; AUTOMATED VEHICLES; DRIVING TASKS; HUMAN-AUTOMATION INTERACTIONS; LATERAL ACCELERATION; LEARNING EFFECTS; TIME TO COLLISION; TRAFFIC DENSITIES;

STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 84961855491     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2016.03.002     Document Type: Article

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