Driving skill characterization: A feasibility study

Information about driver´s driving skill can be used to adapt vehicle control parameters to facilitate the specific driver´s needs in terms of vehicle performance and driving pleasure. This paper presents an approach to driving skill characterization from a pattern-recognition perspective. The basic idea is to extract patterns that reflect the driver´s driving skill level from the measurements of the driver´s behavior and the vehicle response. The preliminary experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of using pattern recognition approach to characterize driver´s handling skill. This paper concludes with the discussions of the challenges and future works to bring the proposed technique to practical use.