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Facilitating the driver role for automated driving in Europe

27 October 2022

MEDIATOR clustered with three other Horizon 2020 projects (Drive2theFuture, HADRIAN and Trustonomy) that also address how the acceptance and safety of automated driving vehicles could be improved. Several discussions took place that resulted in an accepted proposal for a panel discussion at the TRA Lisbon 2022 conference. The session addresses the current problems and limitations of human drivers …

Best student paper award

26 October 2022

Dan Boguslavsky received the Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention (DDI2022) held in Gothenburg last week. The conference was hosted by SAFER Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers, Université Gustave Eiffel, and UNSW. The work Dan did is part of the MEDIATOR project (Dan’s master’s thesis) in WP3, titled “ The effects of engagement …

MEDIATOR behind the scenes: the decision logic

08 October 2022

MEDIATOR is developing a system that mediates between human drivers and vehicle automation to ensure safe, real-time switching between the two, based on who is fittest to drive and drivers’ preference. The Mediator system exists of four main components that have been developed that are currently being tested. Previously, we described the driver state component, the automation state component, and …

Vehicle automation as active team partner

15 September 2022

Earlier this week Dr. Matthias Beggiato presented results from the Mediator study done in WP3 by Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany) at the 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs) in Hildesheim ( https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/dgps2022/). About 50 attendees attended this session, mainly psychologists. His session topic was on „smooth …

General Assembly and Periodic Review meeting

09 July 2022

On 14 and 15 June the MEDIATOR consortium gathered in Tollered (Sweden) for the 7th General Assembly and the periodic review meeting, hosted by Veoneer. It was wonderful being together after such a long time and see how our efforts are coming together during the presentations and demonstrations of the vehicle prototypes. We were given the opportunity to welcome our project manager Anca Pasca …

Liaison meeting

04 June 2022

MEDIATOR liaised with three related Horizon2020 projects: Drive2theFuture, HADRIAN, and Trustonomy. The projects want to bring their recommendations and suggestions to the attention of stakeholders after years of research. For this reason they collectively submitted a proposal for the invited sessions at TRA 2022, taking place in Lisbon. An exchange between stakeholders and the main researchers …