Human Detection Failures in adverse conditions and safety functions devoted to vision and visibility: an innovative way to improve safety benefit
FOUQUET ; VAN ELSLANDE
Type de document
COMMUNICATION AVEC ACTES INTERNATIONAL (ACTI)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
FOUQUET ; VAN ELSLANDE
Résumé / Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of safety functions in their capacity to compensate for vision and visibility problems found in accidents. Road users' detection problems are inferred from the analysis of the malfunctions in the driving system, i.e. the malfunctions of the interactions between Human, Vehicle and Environment, resulting in the fact that the road user did not see an essential element of the visual scene. This analysis is supported by a methodology based on the identification of 'Human Functional Failures' (HFF) from in-depth accident studies and the various parameters that are related to them. The sample studied consists in 120 accident cases in which a detection failure where identified. 10 safety systems have been selected considering their potential capacity to compensate for needs in detection. The results underline the relative capacity of the safety functions to compensate for the drivers' needs and contextual constraints found in accidents where vision and visibility is reduced. They give some indications for improving the potential safety effectiveness of the safety functions. Accidentology, detection error, drivers' needs, safety functions
Editeur
SIA, Société des Ingénieurs de l'Automobile
