Conference paper
Developing a driving simulator assessment scenario for impaired research
Proceedings of the 2024 Australasian Road Safety Conference , pp.292-295
Australasian Road Safety Conference , 2024 (Hobart, Australia, 30-Sep-2024–03-Oct-2024)
Australasian College of Road Safety
2024
Abstract
Driving simulators are valuable tools for studying driving impairment, which is overrepresented in the Australian road serious injuries and fatalities, as apparent from the proportion of fataly injured drivers with an illegal BAC (21%) or drugs (18%) in Australia in 2022 (Office of Road Safety, 2024). However, most studies currently use simple driving environments, limiting the ability to identify driving performance metrics to determine when someone is impaired. We developed a driving simulator assessment scenario inspired by the Q-SAFE driving test. The scenario has been piloted with healthy participants to obtain baseline driving performance benchmarks. This extended abstract presents the preliminary benchmarks obtained for a subset of events occurring during the drive. This research will be applied to different conditions (alcohol, medicinal cannabis, fatigue). Scoring based on machine learning techniques will be developed to detect different types of impairment. Post on X We developed a new driving simulator assessment scenario for studying impaired driving and tested it with healthy participants.
Details
- Title
- Developing a driving simulator assessment scenario for impaired research
- Authors
- Gregoire Larue - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Road Safety Research CollaborationKayla Stefanidis - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Road Safety Research CollaborationKerry Armstrong - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Road Safety Research Collaboration
- Contributors
- Sjaan Koppel (Editor) - Monash UniversityMarilyn Johnson (Editor) - UNSW Sydney
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the 2024 Australasian Road Safety Conference , pp.292-295
- Conference details
- Australasian Road Safety Conference , 2024 (Hobart, Australia, 30-Sep-2024–03-Oct-2024)
- Publisher
- Australasian College of Road Safety
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.33492/ARSC-2024
- Organisation Unit
- Road Safety Research Collaboration; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991066298102621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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