With vehicles today being only partially automated, the requirement for the human driver to stay alert, monitor the road, and take over at a moment’s notice leaves drivers more susceptible to sleepiness — especially when they’re sleep deprived, according to a NASA study.
The research conducted at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley aims to help understand how humans interact with autonomous systems, such as those used in aircraft and in spaceflight systems.
“The bottom line is not that self-driving cars are more or less safe than manually driving,” said Erin Flynn-Evans, director of the Fatigue Countermeasures Lab at Ames.
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