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ObjectiveThis study explores subjective and objective driving style similarity to identify how similarity can be used to develop driver-compatible vehicle automation. BackgroundSimilarity in the ways that interaction partners perform tasks can be measured subjectively, through questionnaires, or objectively by characterizing each agent’s actions. Although subjective measures have advantages in prediction, objective measures are more useful when operationalizing interventions based on these measures. Showing how objective and subjective similarity are related is therefore prudent for aligning future machine performance with human preferences. MethodsA driving simulator study was conducted with stop-and-go scenarios. Participants experienced conservative, moderate, and aggressive automated driving styles and rated the similarity between their own driving style and that of the automation. Objective similarity between the manual and automated driving speed profiles was calculated using three distance measures: dynamic time warping, Euclidean distance, and time alignment measure. Linear mixed effects models were used to examine how different components of the stopping profile and the three objective similarity measures predicted subjective similarity. ResultsObjective similarity using Euclidean distance best predicted subjective similarity. However, this was only observed for participants’ approach to the intersection and not their departure. ConclusionDeveloping driving styles that drivers perceive to be similar to their own is an important step toward driver-compatible automation. In determining what constitutes similarity, it is important to (a) use measures that reflect the driver’s perception of similarity, and (b) understand what elements of the driving style govern subjective similarity.
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Real‐time driving style classification based on short‐term observations
Abstract Vehicle behaviour prediction provides important information for decision‐making in modern intelligent transportation systems. People with different driving styles have considerably different driving behaviours and hence exhibit different behaviour tendency. However, most existing prediction methods do not consider the different tendencies in driving styles and apply the same model to all vehicles. Furthermore, most of the existing driver classification methods rely on offline learning that requires a long observation of driving history and hence are not suitable for real‐time driving behaviour analysis. To facilitate personalised models that can potentially improve vehicle behaviour prediction, the authors propose an algorithm that classifies drivers into different driving styles. The algorithm only requires data from a short observation window and it is more applicable for real‐time online applications compared with existing methods that require a long term observation. Experiment results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can achieve consistent classification results and provide intuitive interpretation and statistical characteristics of different driving styles, which can be further used for vehicle behaviour prediction.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1932139
- PAR ID:
- 10570744
- Publisher / Repository:
- DOI PREFIX: 10.1049
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- IET Communications
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 12
- ISSN:
- 1751-8628
- Format(s):
- Medium: X Size: p. 1393-1402
- Size(s):
- p. 1393-1402
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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