People drive differently based on their current emotions, internal thoughts, driving environment, etc. What determines driver’s behaviour and how EI Cars will drive? Let us explore.
Research indicates that when people are driving in the city, they drive slowly and are more careful. Once they hit the highways, the speed increases naturally and tend to be less careful. In fact, seeing speed limits, triggers drivers to unconsciously increase the speed.
While they have no disrespect of law, these behaviours are due to the fact that driving is a complex activity involving various factors. Let us look into some of them.
Experience – With more mileage, drivers can handle even unknown roads effectively and take better decisions quickly when a challenge mounts. Familiarity with the vehicle and the road helps.
Being Fast and Furious – Inspired by movies and often trying to prove something to someone, some drivers indulge in thrill seeking and perform dangerous manoeuvres increasing risks.
Personality traits – Drivers are innately influenced by their personality traits. Research suggests impulsivity, overconfidence, and impatience manifests on the road and often they end up taking unnecessary risks.
Emotions – Nothing affects the driver behaviours more than their current emotional state. Anger can affect driver’s ability to judiciously take calls and results in increased risks on the road. When the driver is happy, he drives even more dangerously than when he is angry or in a neutral state.
Peer pressure – Drivers are often influenced by the passengers both in good and bad ways. Engaging with the drivers in intense conversations or distracting them will lead to loss of focus resulting in accidents.
While human drivers are influenced by these many factors, how will an EI car will fare? It is definitely possible to keep them less risk taking, but it will take the thrill out of drive.
So, one way it may evolve is that whenever the driver is driving, the EI car will learn his style and try to replicate, within the boundaries of safety. The EI car can eventually understand the personality traits of the driver. It can also recognize the conversations going in the car, determine the mood and adjust accordingly.
Or there could be driving modes that can be selected to change the style of driving with fine customizations available for the driver to suit his tastes. This will be very similar what we can do today. But instead of sports mode, city mode, eco mode, it will be emotional modes – happy, sad, angry or neutral mode.
We will have to wait and see how they turn out. Nevertheless, EI cars will ensure safety of the occupants and its surroundings before any adventure.
Electrical/electronic architecture, also known as EE architecture, is the intricate system that manages the flow of electrical and electronic signals within a vehicle.
