Teleoperated Driving

Teleoperated driving rebounds advantages especially for small electric vehicles for urban use as not every citizen of a metropolis has his own garage where the car can be charged.

Charging can occur, for example, like that in the future: the driver gets out of his car and an operator, sitting in a call center, takes command of the car. The latter drives the car teleoperated through cellular network to a charging station. The next morning, when the car is fully charged, the driver has it come back to his home by teleoperation where he can take it over.

This is at the moment a scenario for the future, but this aspect is considered in the Visio.M project. That is why the Institute of Automotive Technology (Lehrstuhl für Fahrzeugtechnik) focuses on this researchtopic to examine the requirements of car-on-demand concepts and its risk analysis. In order to properly analyze this concept, an appropriate operator working station with user control interface should be built. Furthermore, a demonstration scenario should be developed to show the possibilities of the system.

Based on this scenario, studies regarding user acceptance are conducted since they are an essential aspect of visionary systems such as teleoperated driving.