Week 3 progress - Jelc-sys/AV-control-handover-in-critical-situation GitHub Wiki

By the end of week 3 we made the following progress. We refined our scenario in more details. The AV will be driving into a street where there has been an accident. The car will signal the occupant that an accident occurred on the road so that the occupant is aware of the situation and of the possibility to have to take over control. Next, an emergency vehicle will pull up as well. This is the sign for the AV to cue to the occupant to take over control because of an unexpected situation which the car does not know how to handle. There will be a timeslot in which the occupant must react to the cue, otherwise the AV pulls over to the side and stops. The scenarios should differ in terms of how long it may take for the occupant to have taken over the control (e.g. 3, 10, or 30 seconds). make the car crash/something else if the occupant is not in time.

In the environment, the following changes were made:

• We figured out how to paste an icon on the dashboard of the occupant in the AV. This could serve as a visual cue for the take over procedure
• we figured out how to make the interior of the car more evolutionary by implementing a 'Tesla-like' screen next to the steering wheel.
• we figured out how to make the AV collide with another (stationary) car and making it stop as a result of the collision
• still trying to figure out how to implement a flashing light as another cue the car could provide
• still trying to figure out how to create interactions between road users