The primary purpose of the STC is to provide feedback and vehicle adaptations to teens when risky
driving behaviors are observed. Ideally, teens would respond by reducing the rate of these behaviors
and thus reducing their overall level of risk. To take full advantage of the feedback and adaptation it
is important that teens be exposed to the STC whenever they drive (thus preventing circumvention
of the STC benefits) that requires the STC to be active whenever the vehicle is started. However,
there must be a mechanism within the STC to disengage the STC for various reasons including
allowing parents to instruct their teens without the support of the STC and allowing parents or
sibling who do not need support to drive the vehicle without STC assistance. To address this issue a
TDIS was included in the STC that prompted drivers to select either teen or parent (no support)
mode when a “smart key” was present (signaling the presence of a parent). The smart keys used
radio frequency identification technology to communicate with the STC. The STC subsequently
provided the modal choice to the driver and, based on the driver response, either activated or did
not activate the STC features. Currently RFID technology is in use by vehicle manufacturers for
automatically detecting and adjusting seat and mirror positions based on individual driver profiles.
The same type of technology can be implemented by manufacturers for the implementation of a
TDIS within the STC.
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Recommendations: Based on the needs identified above it is recommended that an OEM-based
STC include teen driver identification functionality. Based on the results of the current work and
feedback from parents the TDIS should retain the ability to select teen and parent (non-teen)
modes. However, feedback from participants suggests that the duration of mode selection be
extended and that the reliability of the TDIS presentation upon vehicle start-up be improved.
Further, it is recommended that there should be more than one method to select STC mode to
accommodate situations such as lost RFID cards. This could be easily accomplished by
incorporating the RFID technology into a key that also starts the vehicle, a technology that is already
in use by vehicle manufacturers.
The primary purpose of the STC is to provide feedback and vehicle adaptations to teens when riskydriving behaviors are observed. Ideally, teens would respond by reducing the rate of these behaviorsand thus reducing their overall level of risk. To take full advantage of the feedback and adaptation itis important that teens be exposed to the STC whenever they drive (thus preventing circumventionof the STC benefits) that requires the STC to be active whenever the vehicle is started. However,there must be a mechanism within the STC to disengage the STC for various reasons includingallowing parents to instruct their teens without the support of the STC and allowing parents orsibling who do not need support to drive the vehicle without STC assistance. To address this issue aTDIS was included in the STC that prompted drivers to select either teen or parent (no support)mode when a “smart key” was present (signaling the presence of a parent). The smart keys usedradio frequency identification technology to communicate with the STC. The STC subsequentlyprovided the modal choice to the driver and, based on the driver response, either activated or didnot activate the STC features. Currently RFID technology is in use by vehicle manufacturers forautomatically detecting and adjusting seat and mirror positions based on individual driver profiles.The same type of technology can be implemented by manufacturers for the implementation of aTDIS within the STC. 41Recommendations: Based on the needs identified above it is recommended that an OEM-basedSTC include teen driver identification functionality. Based on the results of the current work andfeedback from parents the TDIS should retain the ability to select teen and parent (non-teen)modes. However, feedback from participants suggests that the duration of mode selection beextended and that the reliability of the TDIS presentation upon vehicle start-up be improved.Further, it is recommended that there should be more than one method to select STC mode toaccommodate situations such as lost RFID cards. This could be easily accomplished byincorporating the RFID technology into a key that also starts the vehicle, a technology that is alreadyin use by vehicle manufacturers.
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