A key research domain within self-driving vehicle technology is system safety. Current
development efforts target Level 3 autonomy, where the vehicle controls both lateral and …

The safety of partially and conditionally automated vehicles is a critical issue, since these
are not able to deal with all possibly emerging road scenarios. When a currently developed …

The operating of semi-autonomous vehicles foresees so-called handovers, which refers to
the transition of control from driver to vehicle or vice-versa. While the initiation and …

Vehicles with lower level of autonomy (L2-3) require constant awareness of the human
driver during automated cruising, since they are not able to solve all the possible situations …

Self-driving technologies introduced new challenges to the control engineering community.
Autonomous vehicles with limited automation capabilities require constant human …

The safe transition from conditional automation to manual driving control is significantly
intertwined with the vehicle's lateral and longitudinal dynamics. The transition may occur as …

Drivers' ability to engage in non-driving related tasks (NDRTs) is a promise of automated
driving and office work an important use-case therein. We claim that potentially negative …

The car-to-driver handover is a critically important component of safe autonomous vehicle
operation when the vehicle is unable to safely proceed on its own. Current implementations …

In highly automated driving (HAD), it is still an open question how machines can safely hand
over control to humans, and if an advance notice with additional explanations can be …

To make safe transitions from autonomous to manual control, a vehicle must have a
representation of the awareness of driver state; two metrics which quantify this state are the …