ABSTRACT
Early ’70s literature in traffic safety put into evidence how the majority of accidents is a consequence of human error. It was realized that in the framework of the evolution of technical systems, the human element plays a fundamental role both as a governing factor and as a potential menace to safety. In general, the amount of accidents among the years is progressively decreased since the second half of the ’80s. The challenge of reducing even more the number of accidents consists in allowing the development of the so called preventive safety technology, which is conceived to assist the driver when the risk of occurring a hazardous and critic situation is greeting higher. Overall, despite the knowledge acquired concerning the prediction of driver’s intention to start a lane change, the topic is still interesting because the problem of lane change intention has shown to be extremely challenging.
