COGNITION AND EMOTION IN DRIVER BEHAVIOUR MODELS: SOME CRITICAL VIEWPOINTS

Abstract

Several driver behaviour models have been proposed during the years, the first one in 1938 by Gibson and Crooks' and their theoretical field-analysis of automobile driving. Since then, several authors have contributed to the understanding of driver behaviour by developing models. The task of modelling driver behaviour has not reached any kind of consensus. In the present paper, it is argued that one of the main reasons for this is a lack of a thorough and comprehensive understanding of human cognition and emotion, i.e. how drivers think and feel, consciously, pre-consciously, unconsciously. There is no common understanding of driver behaviour that is based on recent achievements in cognitive psychology and neurobiology. The paper argues that no deep understanding of risk compensation will emerge unless recent developments in cognitive psychology and neurobiology are integrated in the modelling of driver behaviour. For the covering abstract see ITRD E122795.