HASTE - Human Machine Interaction and the Safety of Traffic in Europe
Overview
Background & policy context:
The aim of HASTE (Human Machine Interface And the Safety of Traffic in Europe) is to develop methodologies and guidelines for the assessment of In-Vehicle Information Systems (IVIS). To date, there have been attempts to provide manufacturers and testing authorities with a set of guidelines to assess the likely impacts of IVIS on the driving task, usually in the form of a checklist. Such checklists provide a tool that enables the identification of likely problems but they do not attempt to quantify safety problems.
Objectives:
- to identify traffic scenarios in which safety problems with an IVIS are more likely to occur
- to explore the relationships between task load and risk in the context of those scenarios
- to understand the mechanisms through which elevated risk may occur in terms of distraction and reduced Situation Awareness
- to identify the best indicators of risk (accident surrogates)
- to apply the methods devised to evaluating real systems
- go recommend a pre-deployment test regime that is both cost effective and possesses the validity to predict performance
- to recommend an approach for the preliminary hazard analysis of the HMI of an IVIS concept or design, including issues related to reliability, security and tamper proofing.
- to supply a validated methodology for preliminary hazard analysis of IVIS HMI supported by case studies.
Methodology:
The project is devided in workplans consisting of a Methodological Phase (months 0-6), an Experimental Phase (months 9-24) and a Validation Phase (months 25-34). Seven WorkPackages have been developed. The function of each is distinct, but provides outputs relevant to other WPs.
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