Evaluation of Forward Vehicle Collision Mitigation Systems

How Drivers Respond to Warnings Under the Low Expectation of the Hazardous Situation ?

Abstract

An experiment was carried out in an instrumented vehicle in order to evaluate forward vehicle collision mitigation systems. In this experiment, first we examined how drivers respond to forward vehicle collision warning systems when the expectation of a hazardous situation is low. Based on the experimental data, we calculated the amount of decreases in collision speeds by using the system. Finally, we tried evaluation of decrease rate of death/serious injury accidents in addition to the reduction rate of traffic accident.