Estimation of driving loci and evaluation of driving skill

Advanced safe driving of vehicles is fully dependent on the development of the safe driving systems. The final strategy must take drivers' skills into account. This paper describes a method to detect and evaluate driving skill. We present a new system to measure the curvature of driving loci against the distance by using speed and rate gyro sensors, and present a method to extract the driving curvature from that of the road itself. It includes the information of drivers' skill by which the driving conditions can be evaluated.