Car-Driving Assistance for Safety Assistance

This article is from a special issue that includes contributions dealing with human factors within a large research action (ARCOS: Research Action on Safe Driving). The ARCOS main objective was the exploration of the meeting between driver needs and technical devices capable of maintaining the vehicle trajectory within a safe envelope. This article serves as an introduction to the next four articles, two of which deal with the delegation of time headway control. The authors explore the possible benefit of more adaptive cruise control (ACC) than the current ones, including adaptation to both driving style and environmental conditions. The special issue focuses on two main research and application orientations for the future: a correct calibration of human-machine cooperation; and more attention to sensorimotor models for better interventions of the technical devices into the human control loops.