Agency Information Collection Activities; Notice and Request for Comment; Crash Avoidance Warning System Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Research

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION <SUBAGY>National Highway Traffic Safety Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[Docket No. NHTSA-2024-0070]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Agency Information Collection Activities; Notice and Request for Comment; Crash Avoidance Warning System Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Research</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Department of Transportation (DOT). <HD SOURCE="HED">ACTION:</HD> Notice and request for comments on a request for approval of a new information collection. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) invites public comments on our intention to request approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for a new information collection. Before a Federal agency can collect certain information from the public, it must receive approval from OMB. Under procedures established by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, before seeking OMB approval, Federal agencies must solicit public comment on proposed collections of information, including extensions and reinstatement of previously approved collections. This document describes a collection of information for which NHTSA intends to seek OMB approval titled, “Crash Avoidance Warning System Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Research.” </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Comments must be submitted on or before January 6, 2025. </DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">ADDRESSES:</HD> You may submit comments identified by the Docket No. NHTSA-2024-0070 through any of the following methods: • <E T="03">Electronic submissions:</E> Go to the Federal eRulemaking Portal at <E T="03">http://www.regulations.gov.</E> Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. • <E T="03">Fax:</E> (202) 493-2251. • <E T="03">Mail or Hand Delivery:</E> Docket Management, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except on Federal holidays. To be sure someone is there to help you, please call (202) 366-9322 before coming. <E T="03">Instructions:</E> All submissions must include the agency name and docket number for this notice. Note that all comments received will be posted without change to <E T="03">http://www.regulations.gov,</E> including any personal information provided. Please see the Privacy Act heading below. <E T="03">Privacy Act:</E> Anyone is able to search the electronic form of all comments received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review DOT's complete Privacy Act Statement in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477-78) or you may visit <E T="03">https://www.transportation.gov/privacy.</E> <E T="03">Docket:</E> For access to the docket to read background documents or comments received, go to <E T="03">http://www.regulations.gov</E> or the street address listed above. Follow the online instructions for accessing the dockets via internet. <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> For additional information or access to background documents, contact: Alexandria Rossi-Alvarez, Ph.D., Office of Vehicle Safety Research, Applied Crash Avoidance Research Division NSR-120, Vehicle Research & Test Center, 10820 State Route 347, East Liberty, OH 43319; <E T="03">a.rossi-alvarez@dot.gov;</E> (937) 666-3322. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 <E T="03">et seq.</E> ), before an agency submits a proposed collection of information to OMB for approval, it must first publish a document in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> providing a 60-day comment period and otherwise consult with members of the public and affected agencies concerning each proposed collection of information. The OMB has promulgated regulations describing what must be included in such a document. Under OMB's regulation (at 5 CFR 1320.8(d)), an agency must ask for public comment on the following: (a) whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) how to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) how to minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, <E T="03">e.g.,</E> permitting electronic submission of responses. In compliance with these requirements, NHTSA asks for public comments on the following proposed collection of information for which the agency is seeking approval from OMB. <E T="03">Title:</E> Crash Avoidance Warning System Human-Machine Interface (HMI) Research. <E T="03">OMB Control Number:</E> New. <E T="03">Form Number(s):</E> NHTSA Form (2006): Interest Response Form; NHTSA Form (2007): Candidate Screening Questions; NHTSA Form (2008): Appointment Scheduling; NHTSA Form (2009): Participant Informed Consent Form; and NHTSA Form (2010): Post-Drive Questionnaire. <E T="03">Type of Request:</E> New information collection. <E T="03">Type of Review Requested:</E> Regular. <E T="03">Requested Expiration Date of Approval:</E> 3 years from date of approval. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Summary of the Collection of Information</HD> This information collection request (ICR) is to request approval to conduct 6 new voluntary information collections as part of a one-time research study of drivers' interactions with crash avoidance technology with different human-machine interface (HMI) characteristics. NHTSA is seeking to conduct the research effort involving up to 200 licensed drivers without assisted devices between the ages of 25 to 65 from the greater Columbus, Ohio area. The collection of information will consist of (1) Interest Response Form to be administered up to 750 potential research participants, (2) Candidate Screening Questions to be administered up to 375 potential research participants, (3) Appointment Scheduling, (4) Participant Informed Consent Form to be administered to up to 200 research participants, (5) Study Data Collection, and (6) Post-Drive Questionnaire. This research involving collecting information from the public will help support NHTSA's vehicle safety efforts and potential future rulemaking actions. Crash avoidance warning systems aid vehicle drivers in avoiding crashes by presenting alerts and warnings to inform drivers of situations in which the system has determined, via sensor information, that a crash is possible or imminent, depending on the situation. These systems communicate the occurrence of such conditions to drivers via different sensory modalities, such as visual or auditory signals or vibration of the seat or steering wheel. This research will seek to improve NHTSA's understanding of how crash avoidance warning system HMI characteristics affect system effectiveness and potential safety impacts. The objective of this driving research is to examine driver behavior in using crash avoidance warning systems and assess effects of human-machine interface characteristics on drivers' behavior and driver response in crash-imminent scenarios. The research will involve driver behavior observation while driving on a test track, public roads, or in a simulated environment ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> driving simulator). Data collection may also involve stationary laboratory measurements relating to crash avoidance warning signal characteristics, such as stationary laboratory measurements of individuals' visual angles when gazing at in-vehicle visual signals ( <E T="03">e.g.,</E> instrument panel symbols) and displays. Test vehicles will be equipped, as needed, with instrumentation for recording driver eye glance behavior, vehicle control inputs (steering wheel, accelerator pedal, and brake pedal inputs), vehicle position and speed, and turn signal status. During dynamic testing, sensors will determine and record the distances between the test vehicle and surrounding vehicles, as appropriate. Response to this information collection is voluntary and will be conducted in phases corresponding to the different crash avoidance warning system types to be examined ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> forward, lateral, and rear crash avoidance). Research participants will be members of the general public living in the Columbus, OH area, participation will be voluntary, and appropriate monetary compensation (including the hours spent and the mileage traveled) will be provided. Participants will include licensed drivers aged 25 to 65 who are healthy and able to drive without assistive devices. Participants will be recruited using print (newspaper or flyer) or online study recruitment advertisements, and/or mailed invitations to registered Ohio owners of specific vehicle models. The study protocols will be reviewed and approved by the Sterling Institutional Review Board (IRB) before any data collection procedures begin. The research is to be performed one time with no additional requirements or questions once the person has completed the in-person study data collection. The information collected will be available for public consumption upon completion in a report accessible on the National Transportation Library and/or the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . Personal information will not b ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 26k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━