PAsCAL D5.3 Tested simulation-based training solutions and training modules

PAsCAL is a user-centric research project funded under the "Horizon 2020" Research and Innovation program aimed at accelerating the user-friendly evolution of connected, cooperative, and automated vehicles and transport systems, by addressing important issues relating to the role of humans in this evolution, in particular appropriate interactions of the autonomous vehicle with different road users including non-drivers.

Work package 5 deals in particular with training aspects that contribute among the factors influencing the driver’s understanding of autonomous vehicles and impacting their behaviour and acceptance of autonomous vehicles.

While deliverable D5.1 focused on simulator requirements definition and competency, cognitive and affective models related to CAV drivers and deliverable D5.2 presented a description of the training modules proposed for the simulator-based training sessions, this deliverable D5.3 reports on how the experimented training sessions were carried out in the two driving schools' partners in Italy and in UK.

It first presents the context of the Home Study Simulator tests carried out during the experiment phases. It explains in particular how to install and configure the simulator, what was the generic approach taken to conduct the training session tests, and the characteristics of tests undertaken in Italy and in UK.

Then it summarises the main elements that emerged from the experiments considering data collected during the sessions, feedbacks from driving instructors’ workshops in Italy and UK.

It continues with sections explaining the reasons why urban and motorway scenarios are both important as well as the need for complementary practical tests in protected area and on public roads.

This deliverable also mentions additional training needs resulting from the training tests for professional drivers, experienced drivers and trainers, and suggests some requests (useful in the context of training) to be made to other actors involved in CAV as builders, legislator or notifying bodies.

Findings from the work and activities done in WP5 will be incorporated as a series of recommendations in the Guide to autonomy developed in WP8.