Leveraging technology standards to prevent and mitigate driver distraction Scott Pennock Senior Standards Manager

Leveraging technology standards to prevent and mitigate driver distraction

Scott PennockSenior Standards Manager

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Outline

• The problem• A comprehensive solution• Barriers• Strategies for today and tomorrow• Conclusions


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Understanding the problem…

• Interaction with Nomadic Device (ND) can negatively affect:– Situational Awareness – Decision making– Vehicle control

• Strong motivation to interact with ND– Drivers want/need access to information

and entertainment– They underestimate the risks– There are no better alternatives


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A comprehensive solution…

• Prevent distraction and suboptimal workload before it happens– Good basic Human-Machine Interface

(HMI) design– All interaction through vehicle– Manage interaction based on situation– Education/training/laws

• Mitigate distraction and suboptimal workload when it occurs– Monitor driver, roadway, and vehicle– Adjust interaction to mitigate


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Lack of common standards a major barrier to achieving a comprehensive solution

• We need:

– Comprehensive Human-Machine Interface (HMI) design and performance guidance to ensure safe interaction

– Vehicle-to-X (V2X) interface and protocol standards to connect X to a centralized point in the vehicle

– Vehicle-to-Application (V2A) interface standard to interact with driver through the Driver-Vehicle Interface (DVI)

– Standardized mechanisms to manage all driver interaction

Device detection and

selection

Connectivity protocols

Connection context

management

Active device display

Hands free phone and voice recognition

Video decode and composition

PRND

Touch & hard button input

Auto sensors

Seamless support for multiple device types to vehicle (safer than handheld use)

Strategy for TODAY

Apple

Leverage speech and multimodal interfaces (safer than visual-manual interfaces)

Android

MirrorLink


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Strategy for TOMORROW

• Comprehensive harmonized HMI design and performance guidance

• Common set of standards that:

– Specify communications interfaces and protocols between subsystems (vehicle, ND, etc.)

– Define mechanisms to manage Situational Awareness


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Conclusions

• Driver distraction and workload caused by nomadic devices is a problem that needs a comprehensive solution

• A comprehensive solution is not currently possible largely because the necessary technology standards do not exist

• However, that should not stop us from doing what we can TODAY with the tools that we have


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Conclusions (continued)

• We should work on technology standards for TOMORROW that can deliver a more comprehensive solution

• The newly formed collaboration between the UNECE and ITU provides a unique opportunity to work on a more comprehensive solution

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Scott PennockSenior Standards Manager


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Back-up slides


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Qt in the real world – F1 BB Mercedes AMG Petronas


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Qt in the real world – F1 BB Mercedes AMG Petronas• Tablet application for VIP guests watching the F1 races from the Mercedes backstage

area• BlackBerry PlayBook OS• Also runs on Android, iOS, desktop, QNX, BlackBerry 10 and current non-Windows

Nokia phones• Integrates live streaming video from TV cameras• Integrates live audio stream from pit crew intercom• Interfaces with race data real time systems• Allows for Video record and playback• Interfaces with driver bio and background data from web sources• Interactive and intuitive touch UI• Smooth, movie grade animations to satisfy the expectations for a demanding target

audience• User interface created by a cross functional team of artists and developers in less than 2

weeks


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Leveraging technology standards to prevent and mitigate driver distraction Scott Pennock Senior Standards Manager