Reality Check: Insights from Experienced Users of Current Automated Driving Systems for an Updated AutoUI Research Agenda

Most of today’s studies investigating the driver-vehicle interaction of automated driving systems are conducted in simulated environments like driving simulators or virtual reality. While this simulation-based experimental research can produce valuable and valid results, it is at the same time limited by the inherent lack of realism. Important insights into real-world driving experiences and repeated system usage are rarely collected due to the constraints imposed by time and financial resources. In a two-step research approach, we aim to connect the AutoUI research with real-world users. In the first step, we conducted qualitative interviews with 10 experienced, tech-savvy users of current automated driving systems (Waymo, Cruise, Tesla) and clustered the results into the most important topics from a human factor perspective. On this basis, the workshop now aims to bring these insights into the AutoUI research community to identify the most relevant and urgent issues that should be addressed in the coming years.