Road telematics and driver assistance systems offer a real opportunity to aid mobility and road safety. However, they also raise numerous questions. Problems related to the design and evaluation of intelligent driver support systems (IDSSs) and social perspectives related to their large scale introduction may only be fully addressed from a multi-disciplinary viewpoint. People from both engineering and social sciences, should be involved and this book provides such knowledge from both a human and social factors perspective.

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Yvonne Barnard; Intelligent driver support system functions in cars and their potential consequences for safety, Annie Pauzie and Angelos Amditis; Safety according to IDSS functions and to different driver types, Ralf Risser and Ioanna Spyropoulou; Design for safety: a cognitive engineering approach, Guy Boy; HUMANIST contributions for the development of guidelines and standards on HMI, Christhard Gelau, Martin Baumann and Annie Pauzié; Evaluating impact on drivers and drivers' tasks, Ioanna Spyropoulou; Tools and procedures for measuring safety-relevant criteria, Josef Krems and Tibor Petzoldt; Psycho-physiological measures of driver state, Ellen Wilschut and Dick de Waard; Public impact: non-equipped and vulnerable road users and residents, Ralf Risser; Different types of drivers' social problems, Juliane Haupt and Ralf Risser; The future of IDSS, Yvonne Barnard, Ralf Risser, Clemens Kaufmann, Josef Krems and Tibor Petzoldt; Index.