University of Michigan Details Findings in Risk Management (An Examination of Teen Drivers’ Car-following Behavior Under Naturalistic Driving Conditions: With and Without an Advanced Driving Assistance System)

2020 DEC 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Fresh data on Risk Management are presented in a new report. According to news reporting from Dearborn, Michigan, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Teen drivers are overrepresented in motor vehicle crashes, and most studies concluded it was mainly due to their lack of experiences and tendencies of risk-taking. The design of advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) aims to provide assistance in multiple stages in human information processing during driving, including environmental sensing, information processing, decision making, and vehicle controlling, in order to improve driving safety.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the University of Michigan, “It is expected that novice drivers may benefit more from using ADAS than adult drivers as such technologies can compensate for their frequent errors. This study examined whether and how an integrated crash warning system impacted on drivers’ following behavior, and what were the corresponding age-related differences through an analysis of two unique naturalistic driving study datasets. Significant age-related differences in car-following behavior were found. Results showed potential negative effects of ADAS on teen drivers’ following behavior that teen drivers tended to have less controlled pedal use during treatment weeks with ADAS than during baseline weeks without ADAS, while such behavior was not observed in adult drivers. All adult drivers tended to keep longer headways when driving at night than during daytime to compensate for poor vision conditions, but no such compensation behavior was observed in the teens. In addition, teen and young-adult drivers had more aggressive following behavior (with shorter mean time headway) than middle-aged and older drivers. One limitation of this study is that the findings of this study are only addressing the short-term effect of ADAS exposure, and future studies are needed to examine the longitudinal effect.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The findings of this study suggest that the design of future ADAS should consider minimizing potential negative impacts on teen driver behavior.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: An Examination of Teen Drivers’ Car-following Behavior Under Naturalistic Driving Conditions: With and Without an Advanced Driving Assistance System. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2020;147:105762. Accident Analysis & Prevention can be contacted at: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Accident Analysis & Prevention - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/accident-analysis-and-prevention/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Shan Bao, University of Michigan, Ind & Mfg Syst Engn Dept, 4901 Evergreen Rd, Dearborn, MI 48128, United States. Additional authors for this research include Ling Wu, Bo Yu and James R. Sayer.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2020.105762. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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