Autonomous vehicles and the challenges in human-machine-cooperation

Beyond 2020, we expect vehicles to become more and more autonomous. However, we are not looking at a sudden change from driving as we know it to car completely driving by themselves. Rather there will be a long transition phase of partially automated driving where to “intelligent” systems (the vehicle and the human) are cooperating, sharing the responsibility for driving (primary task) and maintaining safety (secondary task). Already today, behavioral effects of advanced driver assistant systems (ADAS) are known such as risk adaptation and reduction/shift of attention. The transition to automated driving poses completely new challenges in human-machine-interaction or better: human-machine-collaboration. In this talk, I will outline those challenges and point out opportunities for ICT research and innovation.