NCT03893006

Vehicle Automation Impact on Drivers

On the Highway to Autonomous Driving: How is Automation Changing Humans: Investigations of Drivers' Behaviors, Representations and Neural Processes

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 22 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In the context of ever-increasing automation in surface vehicles, automation impact on drivers will be investigated through three complementary research axes undertaken under simulated driving: Axe 1 (Cognitive ergonomics), how automation is impacting driving behaviors and visual explorations? Axe 2 (Experimental psychology), how automation is impacting drivers' mental representations of their own driving abilities? Axe 3 (Neuroimaging), how automation is modifying the car driving neural network? And what are drivers' mental representations neural bases? The project tackle both applied and basic research issues using an original experimental neuro ergonomics approach. AUTODRIVE will bring original data on human-machine cooperation, mental representations, cognitive control and brain processes depending on the characteristics of the automation used over a significant period of time (six weeks) on a large sample (N=120) of experienced and inexperienced drivers.

Conditions

• Behaviors
• Driving
• Automation
• Neuroimaging

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Level of vehicle automation	From no automation of the vehicle to full automation through warnings, shared control and partly automated automation levels.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-08
• Primary completion: 2023-07-08
• Completion: 2023-07-08
• First posted: 2019-03-27
• Last updated: 2021-07-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France