Chapter 6What's skill got to do with it?
OVERVIEW
We are making good progress now and, having established that some levels of automated driving reduce workload and attention for experienced drivers, this chapter considers how the development of automaticity within the driving task may influence performance in underload situations. In an extension of Young & Stanton's (2002b) simulator study (presented in Chapter 4), driver skill was manipulated alongside driving automation, each with four levels. Driving performance, mental workload and attentional capacity were measured. The data suggested that driver skill had little effect on subjective mental workload, but a secondary task measure did reveal an interaction ...
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