Force Feedback: New Frontier as the Innovative Driving Comfort Tool

摘要

Previous Human Factors studies in the automotive field showed that drivers performance is influenced by the type of Force Feedback (FF) reproduced by the steering wheel. In the present study, six FF were compared. Results suggest that the effect of the type of FF depends on the specific driving scenario, thus suggesting the utility of an adaptive force feedback based steering wheel. In the final part of the paper, we describe how such a system could be implemented in a real vehicle.