A new driving simulator was developed for the MueGen Driving project.
In the MueGen Driving project, researchers from the Institute of Automotive Engineering at TU Graz studied how gender and age influence our trust in driver assistance systems. . "Although this is a bit of a sweeping statement, we know that young men are more likely to be involved in accidents than women of advanced age," explains Arno Eichberger . It may sound here like a sweeping statement, but finding it to be corroborated by actual accident statistics Eichberger and colleague Cornelia Lex decided to start the MueGen Driving project. In their work, both Arno Eichberger and Cornelia Lex intensively investigate driver assistance systems that either relieve the person behind the steering wheel of a vehicle of bothersome/monotonous tasks or are ready to intervene in emergency situations and prevent dramatically worse outcomes. "If the cause of the accident really is influenced by the driver's age and gender, the assistance systems in the vehicles must also be capable of reacting differently. The purpose of this differentiated approach must be to ensure that the driver feels at ease and accepts the system's driving behaviour," says Eichberger about his original research idea.
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