SAFER Seminar: "What can Event Data Recorders tell us about how Drivers Attempt to Evade Crashes?"
Welcome to a SAFER Seminar with Prof. Clay Gabler from Virgina Tech!
"What can Event Data Recorders tell us about how Drivers Attempt to Evade Crashes?"
Prof. Gabler is visiting SAFER in conjunction with Ulrich Sander's dissertation, welcome to meet him and learn from his research and expertise.
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Abstract
The performance of current and emerging active safety systems will be highly dependent upon driver evasive maneuvering prior to a crash. Little is known however about the detailed evasive kinematics followed by drivers prior to real world crashes. One promising source of driver pre-crash behavior are the event data recorders (EDRs), the black boxes in most modern passenger vehicles, which can record up to 5 seconds of pre-crash driver actions attempting to avoid a crash. This study is based upon EDRs downloaded as part of the US National Automotive Sampling System / Crashworthiness Data System from 2001-2015. The study will present the timing, characteristics and magnitude of evasive maneuvers prior to intersection, lane departure, and road departure crashes. Although current active safety systems are highly successful, the results illustrate the limits of crash avoidance technologies and the challenges which will confront automated vehicles seeking to predict human driver intent.
Bio
H. Clay Gabler is the Samuel Herrick Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Virginia Tech. Dr. Gabler serves as the Chair for Graduate Studies for the Virginia Tech Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, and is an Associate Director of the Center of Injury Biomechanics. Prior to Virginia Tech, he served as a research program manager at the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Dr. Gabler has published a book and over 220 papers on subjects including automated vehicle safety, active safety, vehicle crashworthiness, injury biomechanics, event data recorders, roadside safety, crash epidemiology, and crash modeling. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University. Dr. Gabler is a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM), a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and Associate Editor for Traffic Injury Prevention and the SAE International Journal of Transportation Safety.
