Automotive Ergonomics

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IVIS, ADAS, OODA

Joining the Loops

Nick Reed

Transport Research Laboratory, UK

4.1 INTRODUCTION

Modern life places demands on our capabilities to multi-task. The basic drives to

satisfy hunger, to sleep and to reproduce are supplemented by a variety of goals that

may be directly related, indirectly related or independent of these motivations. In

this chapter, the nature of driving as a sub-task within the framework of human goals

shall be discussed.

4.1.1  the DriVing task

In the early twentieth century and soon after the emergence of the automobile, pio-

neering manufacturers, Daimler Benz, made plans to cope with expected future

demand for automobiles, predicting that in a century, there would be one million cars

on the road. This prediction was based on the assumption that the maximum number

of chauffeurs who could be trained to drive was one million (Peppers and Rogers,

2008). The prediction was based on a false assumption about the difculty of the

driving task. The speed with which the car enabled movement of people, goods and

information led to development pressure to improve the usability of the automobile.

This resulted in vehicles that were relatively easy to drive and maintain compared

to their forebears and so driving became viable to a much larger proportion of the

CONTENTS

4.1 Introduction .................................................................................................... 41

4.1.1 The Driving Task ................................................................................ 41

4.1.2 Mobile Phones and IVIS .....................................................................42

4.1.3 ADAS and Autonomy .........................................................................44

4.1.4 Summary ............................................................................................44

4.2 Boyd and the OODA Loop .............................................................................45

4.3 OODA Loops and Driver Distraction .............................................................47

4.5 OODA and ADAS ..........................................................................................49

4.6 Conclusion ......................................................................................................50

References ................................................................................................................50