Study of a driver assistance interface for merging situations on highways

Abstract

Merging is considered a complex maneuver to perform safely due to the high attention required by the driver, and the external variables that make up an unstructured environment. In spite of the great amount of ADAS technologies that are being developed, at present there are few systems that help to carry out this maneuver. However, thanks to the use of V2V inter-vehicular communications to propose a driver assistance system is possible, facilitating this maneuver on highways. Since a situation of merging requires a high cognitive load, in this study some variables to propose the design of an HMI interface that helps the driver to perform the maneuver securely, are evaluated. Through eye tracking system, driving tests will be carried out on a real vehicle, where several merging maneuvers will be performed on highways.