Safer automation starts with better human understanding.
Advanced vehicle automation can only improve safety if people trust it appropriately, understand it clearly, and know how to use it when it matters most. AutHUMate is developing adaptive human-vehicle interaction strategies that help drivers and technology work together more safely, naturally, and confidently.
QUIZ: test your trust
How do you really interact with your vehicle?
Our interaction with driver assistance and automated driving systems is shaped by confidence, habits, expectations and previous experiences.
Take this short interactive quiz to reflect on your perceptions of driving automation and discover how human-centred design can help make automated mobility safer, more inclusive and easier to use.
Your Results
You prefer to stay in control and may be cautious about relying on automated driving systems.
Trust & Understanding Indicator
Progress bar:AutHUMate explores how people interact with automated driving technologies and helps develop solutions that better align automation with human needs, expectations and capabilities.
Your Results
You generally feel comfortable using certain automated driving functions while remaining aware of their limitations.
Trust & Understanding Indicator
Progress bar:AutHUMate explores how people interact with automated driving technologies and helps develop solutions that better align automation with human needs, expectations and capabilities.
Your Results
You feel confident using automated driving systems and are comfortable relying on many of their features.
Trust & Understanding Indicator
Progress bar:AutHUMate explores how people interact with automated driving technologies and helps develop solutions that better align automation with human needs, expectations and capabilities.
AUTHUMATE IN A NUTSHELL
Human-centred innovation for safer roads
AutHUMate is a European innovation project rethinking how humans interact with advanced driving technologies.
Rather than expecting drivers to adapt to technology, we believe technology should better adapt to drivers.
The project blends behavioural science, AI-powered sensing, inclusive design and real-world validation to help people interact with vehicle automation more safely and with greater confidence.
HUMAN-CENTRED AUTOMATION STARTS HERE
Trust should be calibrated, not blind.
Too much trust can be dangerous. Too little trust can mean safer technologies go unused. AutHUMate helps find the right balance.
Drivers are not all the same.
Young drivers, professional drivers, older adults, digitally excluded users, and people with different abilities experience technology differently.
We turn these differences into realistic personas for safer, more inclusive automation.
Human and vehicle should act as a team.
Automation should support, guide and communicate; not confuse.