Educational Effects of Driving Review by Agents on Older Drivers

Abstract

Traffic accidents caused by older drivers have become a social problem in recent years. It is necessary to correct their overestimation of their driving ability for older drivers to continue driving safely. Effective and efficient safe driving education is required as the aging society progresses. Therefore, we proposed an efficient education method to correct older drivers’ overestimation of driving safety. The proposed method includes simulated collision and near-miss experiences with a driving simulator and driving reviews using an app. The app is efficient because it allows education without human intervention. We extracted elements from the dialogue content by humans in our previous study and added teaching remarks at the end of the dialogue to make the education effective with limited dialogue content. In addition, an agent was introduced to review the driving experience to make it easier for the older drivers to accept the content of the dialogue. As a result, the proposed method achieved a higher educational effect than the review done by humans. This result showed that education can be done by the app and without human intervention and that the agent facilitates the acceptance of older drivers and improves the educational effect.