ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the intelligent components of the Generic Intelligent Driver Support (GIDS) system. It argues the necessity of having such an intelligent component. The chapter shows how it fits into the overall architecture of GIDS. Intelligent driver support is required in view of the increasing information load on vehicle operators. In general, neither the dynamic control models nor the early information processing models - nor, for that matter, the simple precognitive loop system - satisfied the requirements of a computational theory of driver behaviour. The system was used to select appropriate reading material for the particular user and was able to distinguish between levels of educational background, typical interests, etc. The majority of user modelling work in the 1980s tended to concentrate on the use of such models to explain pragmatic phenomena and is of little practical value in our modelling of the driver.
