Method and Evaluation of Warning by Blind Spot Monitoring in Lane Change Process

Abstract

A driving simulator experiment was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of an alarm system that presents to the driver that another vehicle is present at the blind spot area when the driver freely changes the lane during manual operation. There are three types of alarming that use the indicator lighting or blinking on the door mirror in the direction in which another car at the blind is present, the vibration of the lever, both of the indicator and the vibration of the lever. We also examined the effectiveness of lane change during manual operation after switching from automatic operation to manual operation.