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AutoPlay: The Future of Self-Driving Cars
An in-car entertainment system developed at RMIT could make self-driving traffic jams more fun, as well as boosting future commuters’ physical and mental health.
Future Commuters - Designing for self-driving cars
AUDIO: Opening music intro
VISUAL: Blurred time-lapse video of a car in a city at night.
VISUAL: RMIT University Logo
TEXT ON SCREEN: RMIT UNIVERSITY presents
TEXT ON SCREEN: Future Commuters ? Designing for self-driving cars
SVEN KROME SPEAKS: My name is Sven Krome, I'm a researcher at RMIT. I work together with Audi Electronic Ventures, on how we can improve the autonomous driving experience.
VISUAL: Sven Krome sits on the bonnet of a car looking at the camera. Melbourne city buildings and an RMIT building can be seen in the background.
SVEN KROME SPEAKS: I'm looking into the commuting experience in particular. I look what are the features of a commute that make it interesting and what are the consequences, for an autonomously driven commute.
VISUAL: Time-lapse footage of traffic jams during peak-hour commuting.
VISUAL: Sven Krome sits in a car and talks to camera.
SVEN KROME SPEAKS: My approach is a research through design approach, which means that I design applications that are, through the design process to the aligning of the design through the car and testing with users against a map of the design space of future commuting.
VISUAL: A man uses his hands to pedal a bicycle simulator; he is sitting in front of a computer screen and a laptop, performing tests of the software.
VISUAL: Hands tap a model steering wheel that is fitted to a desk in front of a computer screen, performing software tests. The same tests are performed in the passenger seat of a moving car.
SVEN KROME SPEAKS: I have three applications which are labeled in the name Auto Play: Auto Gym which is an exertion and exercise machine.
VISUAL: Sven Krome uses the hand driven pedals in the car to demonstrate the ?Auto Gym? software.
SVEN KROME SPEAKS: Auto Jam, which is an interactive music experience.
VISUAL: Sven Krome taps the model steering wheel, demonstrating
SVEN KROME SPEAKS: Auto Route which is exploration and navigation interface for future fully autonomous cars.
VISUAL: Sven Krome demonstrates Auto Route software, a tablet is setup in the passenger seat of the car and Sven is touching the screen.
SVEN KROME SPEAKS: All three applications try to take the context of driving as a crucial design element into their systems.
VISUAL: Sven Krome sits in a car and talks to camera.
SVEN KROME SPEAKS: For example, Auto Gym, allows the commuter or the driver to progress in the gym, in the exercise program, only if they predict the speed of the car correctly.
VISUAL: Sven Krome sits in the passenger side of the car; the Auto Gym pedals and the connected tablet are in front of him.
SVEN KROME SPEAKS: I have to predict how long it stands and based on my prediction I choose the segment, which I have to work through with the exercise bike. For example, when I'm, when we're approaching a traffic light like here and I see that we have to turn, I choose one of those segments and it is connected to the speed of the car?
VISUAL: Sven Krome begins to pedal
SVEN KROME SPEAKS: so the car starts slow enough I might be able to win against the car and I won.
VISUAL: A black Audi A8 car is driving on an inner city road.
SVEN KROME SPEAKS: To progress in the game or in the program, they have to have an eye on the road and they have to understand what traffic is and anticipate the traffic which makes this particular application also very useful for professional drivers who are in semi-autonomous, or fully autonomous cars where they still should be aware about what is around, what is going on, but still can maintain a healthy position in their car.
VISUAL: Slow motion, blurred vision of traffic at night.
VISUAL: RMIT University logo.
AUDIO: Fades out
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