The Trouble with Autopilots: Assisted and Autonomous Driving on the Social Road
2017 (English)In: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017, p. 416-429Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
As self-driving cars have grown in sophistication and ability, they have been deployed on the road in both localised tests and as regular private vehicles. In this paper we draw upon publicly available videos of autonomous and assisted driving (specifically the Tesla autopilot and Google self-driving car) to explore how their drivers and the drivers of other cars interact with, and make sense of, the actions of these cars. Our findings provide an early perspective on human interaction with new forms of driving involving assisted-car drivers, autonomous vehicles and other road users. The focus is on social interaction on the road, and how drivers communicate through, and interpret, the movement of cars. We provide suggestions toward increasing the transparency of autopilots' actions for both their driver and other drivers.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017. p. 416-429
Keywords [en]
Autonomous cars, self-driving, video analysis, interaction, social road, automobile interfaces, human-robot-interaction
National Category
Human Computer Interaction
Research subject
Man-Machine-Interaction (MMI)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-149567DOI: 10.1145/3025453.3025462ISI: 000426970500038ISBN: 978-1-4503-4655-9 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-149567DiVA, id: diva2:1162877
Conference
2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, Colorado, USA, May 06 - 11, 2017
2017-12-052017-12-052022-02-28Bibliographically approved