Conference paper
Drivers' over-trust on advanced driver assistance systems on passively protected railway level crossings
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, pp.8073-8083
Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE) International Conference, 5th (Krakow, Poland, 19-Jul-2014–23-Jul-2014)
AHFE Conference
2014
Abstract
Passively protected railway crossings are a major rail safety issue in Australia. Such crossings cannot be upgraded as such crossings are too numerous and the cost involved is prohibitive. Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) have been shown to improve road safety and are widely used. These systems could be a solution to improve safety of passively protected crossings at a lower cost. Such complementary ADAS could result in driver's over-trust due to the absence of Humane Machine Interface reflecting the quality of the information or the state of the ADAS (failure status). This paper demonstrates that driver's exposure to crossing exhibiting fail-safe and non-fail safe properties could result in improperly allocating trust between technologies. We conducted a driving simulator study where participants (N=58) were exposed to three types of level crossing warning system on passive and active crossings. The results show that a significant proportion of participants over-trust the ADAS. Such drivers exhibit the same driving performance with the ADAS as when exposed to infrastructure based active crossing protection. They do not take the necessary safety precautions as they have a faster speed approach, reduced number of gaze toward the rail tracks and fail to stop at the crossing.
Details
- Title
- Drivers' over-trust on advanced driver assistance systems on passively protected railway level crossings
- Authors
- Gregoire Larue (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyAndry Rakotonirainy (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Contributors
- Tareq Z Ahram (Editor)Waldemar Karwowski (Editor)T Marek (Editor)
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, pp.8073-8083
- Conference details
- Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE) International Conference, 5th (Krakow, Poland, 19-Jul-2014–23-Jul-2014)
- Publisher
- AHFE Conference
- Date published
- 2014
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2014 AHFE Conference. Reproduced here with kind permission from the copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- Road Safety Research Collaboration; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99649478602621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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