Auto-Pilot Driving Log - Mercedes Benz Semi-Trucks

This was a project done for Interaction Design Practice (IDP) in my first semester of grad school at Indiana University. I worked with an awesome team!

Here is a quick overview of the project!

1) The Problem
The Mercedes Benz semi-truck of 2025 will only be autonomous on the highway and only in optimal road conditions. How do you alert drivers when they need to take control of the vehicle?

2) My Role and the Timeline
I worked on team with three other designers: Nicole Anicetti, Dipt Chaudhary, and Leslie Huang. My role included: interviewing users, researching, sketching out ideas, prototyping, user testing, documenting our process, and presenting the final design. We worked on this project for a month.

3) What We Designed
We designed an alert system for autonomous semi-trucks in 2025 that alerts drivers when they need to take control of the vehicle. We used voice and light alerts in order to grab the drivers attention when they were needed. We also designed a smart system that would safely pull over if the driver did not respond to the alerts.

Read more...
https://medium.com/design-school/designing-for-autonomous-semi-trucks-5f4170807a8a