A Practical View of the Similarity and Differences Among the Impaired Driver States in Legal Driving

摘要

Detection and intervention of various impaired driver states have been intensively studied with corresponding technologies widely implemented in modern vehicles. Different algorithms are proposed to detect certain states or conditions, with intervention means like driver alerts or vehicle active safety features being developed and optimized accordingly. However, there lacks a unified view of all of these different driver states. In order to support the development of vehicle systems, this study tries to compare the commonly-seen impaired driver states in terms of their detection features as well as the effects on degraded driving performance. A meta-analysis is conducted to identify the overlapping and disjoint spaces among them from the angle of the vehicle design. The research finds some answers about the driver behavior and environment features that the vehicle system shall pay attention to and the degraded driving performance that the vehicle shall prepare for, when impaired driving happens in different ways in the reality.