Evaluation of Forward Vehicle Collision Mitigation Systems

- Effectiveness of Warning Braking -

Abstract

An experiment was carried out in a driving simulator in order to evaluate forward vehicle collision mitigation systems. In this experiment, first we examined how driver respond to a forward vehicle collision warning system in a condition adding warning braking to visual warning and auditory warning. Our experiment revealed that in a condition adding warning braking, driver's response became appropriate and also brake reaction time became faster. We calculated the amount of decreases in collision speeds in each conditions and finally we tried to evaluate the effectiveness of the warning braking by reduction rate of fatal/severe accidents.