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Problem
- What driving style should an auto car have?
- Specific driving behavior for each driving situation
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Goal
- Learning driving style preference while satisfying safety constraints
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From the study
- Teach auto car how to drive from human demonstrations
- How do driving styles relate to comfort
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Opportunity
- Achieve safe driving with auto car and satisfy driver's style
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Significance
- Impact on auto car driving behavior
- Increase driver satisfacation
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Related Work (Existing Studies)
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General driving style
- Driving speed
- Tendency of committing traffic violation
- Headway
- Overtaking of other vehicles
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Most common metric to define style
- Aggressiveness
- Defensiveness
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Multidimensional driving style inventory (MDSI)
- Reckless and careless driving----High speed
- Anxious driving
- Angry and hostile driving (More use on horn and flash)
- Patient and careful driving
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Huysduynen
- Angry driving
- Anxious driving
- Dissociative driving
- Distress-Reduction driving
- Careful driving
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Lee (Analyzed lane changed)
- Severity
- Urgency
- Type classification
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Hong
- Differentiated styles in term of defensiveness
- Propensity for rules violation
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Horswill
- Valuable distinction between skill and style
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Scherer
- Comfort
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Assumption
- Focus on defensiveness of driving style
- An auto car should learn their user's driving style/ behavior
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Driving defensiveness
- Aggregate of driving features in various driving scenarios
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Study
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Part 1
- Survey of participants driving behaviors
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Test track info gatherings
- 9.6 miles track
- 15-20 mins drivings
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Part 2
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6 Tests
- Lead car slow down forcing lane change
- Merge back to right lane
- Slow lead car in right lane forcing lane change when another car is approaching fast in the destination lane
- Merge back into right lane with a continuous traffic moving at constant gap and constant speed
- Left turn at stoplight and yield at green
- Right turn on green light
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4 driving styles simulated
- Aggressive
- Defensive
- Own drivings
- Another participants drivings
- 9 out 15 preferred different style than their own at least one of the tasks
- 46%-67% could not identify tasks corresponds to their behavior
- Inner city, highway simulation
- Randomized tasks
- 15 participants (college students)
- 46% considered themselves well experience driving, and 20% considered themselves experienced
- Mean driving experience was 5.46 years
- Rest 18-24
- 3 participants were 30 to 31 years old
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Limitation
- Limited driving style features
- Limited driving style choices
- Limited fidelity of simulation environment
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Evaluation (Result)
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Simulation
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Similarity between driving on road and driving in our study simulator was +1 on -3 to +3 scale.
- Simulator conditions are very similar to real driving conditions
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Feature distribution for participant styles
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Define driving style in terms of features, for each task, feature, and participant, what the participant's feature value was for that task.
- Higher negative values correspond more aggressive behavior
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Preferred style in relation to own style
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Future research
- driving style based on context
- Perceived own style in relation to actual own style
- Should test more diverse feature choices and driving style representation in a higher fidelity setting
- Explore what features users' consider when they evaluate autonomous driving styles
- Explore new learning technique that can augment user demonstrations with other types of user input and guidance