Seeing Machines’ CAN Drive trial, an ACT Government-funded study focused on driver behaviour in autonomous vehicles, found that driver response time doubles in a self-driving vehicle. Dr Lenné will address the International Driverless Vehicle Summit in Adelaide this week, to present initial findings.

“There is concern about how driver behaviour and vehicle function – over the next one to two years in particular – could impact safety,” Mr Lenné said.

“If you don’t have a way of monitoring how attentive the driver is, and you allow them to use this system on public roads, in mixed traffic, at high speeds where you have no control over how long the driver is looking off-road or whether they have their hands off the wheel for long periods, then that is almost a perfect storm.”

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