Towards development of a smart automotive dash instrument as a way to decrease distracted driving

Abstract

In spite of all technological advances incorporated in vehicles by the automotive industry in making vehicle production safer and more efficient to mitigate accidents and/or collisions, for example, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to provide services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management, which enable users to be better informed and make safer to reduce car accidents, additional to this efforts, the use of Smartphones are already being used on cars to perform a valuable solution for powering ITS and can be integrated on vehicles, despite these technological advances, automobile accidents continue in ascent and continue to be responsible for thousands of casualties each year. To diminish them, several technical solutions have been developed, however, additional research is required in this area.  With the purpose of helping to reduce distracted driving caused by visual, auditory, physical, and cognitive distractors, the present research paper was approached, which was divided into two main processes, the first one, a systematic literature review of the main factors that are responsible for vehicle distraction during driving, and a survey process to discover distracted driving causes. As a result of this research, a technological solution was designed to reduce distracted driving situations. From the results obtained, the option of developing a prototype of a smart automotive dash instrument that helps to reduce distracted driving is proposed. This paper presents the first phases of development of the software life cycle addressed for the design of the prototype, as future work on the development and tests of the prototype are considered.