Effects of Task-Induced Fatigue in Prolonged Conditional Automated Driving.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of task-induced fatigue in prolonged conditional automated driving on takeover performance.

Background: In conditional automated driving, the driver can engage in non-driving related tasks (NDRTs) and does not have to monitor the system and the driving environment. In the event that the system hits its limits, the human driver must regain control of the car.

Expert-based controllability assessment of control transitions from automated to manual driving.

Up to a level of full vehicle automation, drivers will have to be available as a fallback level and take back manual control of the vehicle in case of system limits or failures. Before introducing automated vehicles to the consumer market, the controllability of these control transitions has to be demonstrated. This paper presents a novel procedure for an expert-based controllability assessment of control transitions from automated to manual driving.

Thermal behavior of [2.1.1]propellane: a DFT/ab initio study.

Density functional and ab initio molecular orbital calculations have been used to search for the low energy path of the thermal isomerization of [2.1.1]propellane 1.