PAsCAL D5.2 Educational scenarios and tasks for CAV relevant training situations

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.

The literature review and outcomes of the HSS experiment carried out in D4.2 highlighted that trainings are among the factors influencing the driver’s understanding of CAVs and impacting their behaviour and acceptance.

Based on the drivers’ competence and cognitive models (see D5.1) as well as the features requirements for a simulated CAV environment proposing several ways and variables to investigate determinants of a safe takeover, this deliverable describes the training modules proposed during the simulator- based training sessions experimented in the two driving schools’ partners in Italy and in UK.

These modules are articulated between a CAV dedicated theoretical approach and a more practical one using the features developed in the Home Study Simulator.

The theoretical modules are in line with the local laws and common driver training policies of each partner country. These include the taxonomy of autonomous driving levels, the legal perspectives, some explanations of additional dedicated features available in CAV.

The practical modules include preparatory elements for the effective use of the simulator and address several scenarios, proposing various situations occurring in an urban and a Motorway environment, where the take back control process is important. For each of them a description of the expected driver response behaviour is given as well as good practices for the driving instructor to be transmitted during the simulation training sessions.

Outcomes and findings from the simulator-based training sessions carried out in Italy and in UK are reported in the deliverable D5.3.