A new report published in the journal Human Factors has highlighted a significant issue for designers of autonomous vehicles. The study, by Alexander Eriksson and Neville Stanton at the University of Southampton, found that, under noncritical conditions, drivers took between 1.9 - 25.7 seconds to regain control from a highly automated vehicle. In other words, if you were driving an autonomous vehicle on a busy road with no traffic lights, it would take about 1.7 minutes before your car was able to get back into its lane.
A new report published in the journal Human Factors has highlighted a significant issue for designers of autonomous vehicles. The study, by Alexander Eriksson and Neville Stanton at the University of Southampton, found that, under noncritical conditions, drivers took between 1.9 - 25.7 seconds to regain control from a highly automated vehicle. As a result, the authors highlighted the need for designers to disregard mean or median results, and instead 'strive to include the larger range of control transition times so they do not exclude users that fall outside the mean or median.'