Project description
HAVs face safety challenges in mixed road traffic
Imagine reading a book or napping while ‘driving’ your car to work in the mornings. This is the future of highly automated vehicles (HAVs) that do not need any human intervention. In this context, the EU-funded AWARE2ALL project will explore how passengers will actually sit in cars and what activities they will engage in. It will also investigate how HAVs will navigate through heavy traffic and effectively address the changes in road safety and changes in the interaction of different road users. AWARE2ALL will also propose a common conceptual universal safety framework for considering Human Machine Interaction.
Objective
Facing to the challenge of future highly automated vehicles, where occupants can freely orient themselves to engage in non-driving activities. This new environment prompts questions about how car occupants will actually sit, what activities they will engage in, and how they will informed through the HMI to keep them in the loop if necessary.
AWARE2ALL aims to pave the way towards Highly Automated Vehicles (HAVs) deployment in traffic, by effectively addressing the changes in road safety and changes in the interaction of different road users caused by the emergence of HAV through the development of innovative technologies along with the corresponding assessment tools and methodologies.
AWARE2ALL will develop safety and HMI systems that will be interrelated through achieving a holistic understanding of the scene to ensure safe operation of the HAV. AWARE2ALL proposes a common conceptual universal safety framework for considering Human Machine Interaction (HMI). The project will be built on the results of projects funded under H2020 and other R&D programmes addressing the identification of new safety-critical situations and the most likely positions and postures considering the expected HAV applications.
The main objective of AWARE2ALL is to address the new safety challenges posed by the introduction of HAVs in mixed road traffic, through the development of inclusive and innovative safety (passive and active) and HMI (interior and exterior) systems that will consider the variety of population and will objectively demonstrate relevant improvements in mixed traffic safety.
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
20009 Donostia San Sebastian
Spain
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.