Our design is part of an evolving industry of competitors who are all investigating ways to improve the AV landscape. With our goal of creating comfort for apprehensive users in mind we have attempted to replicate as much information from a traditional driving interface. This creates familiarity for users and acts as a foundation for us to integrate autonomous decision making information.

AV’s Today
Tesla is at the forefront of technological innovation for AV function. In 2019, they released a demo of one of their vehicles executing high autonomous driving. This is one step closer to full autonomy and the most advanced version of an AV that is currently available. See their demo here:

The Tesla AV interface captures autonomous function on the left of their interface and displays navigation on the right. This design caters to users with a comfortable background in technology. Traditional driver information is displayed, but not emphasized. In this example driver controls are available so the interface was not designed for a fully autonomous vehicle.

Focusing on the Apprehensive User

Tesla’s implementation does a great job capturing and displaying autonomous function. Our design brings AV function to the locus of the interface so users can constantly synthesize the interface display with their own perception of their riding experience. Surrounding this central feature of our interface is traditional driver information as explained in our storyboard and prototyping.

Apprehensive users benefit from our design because it provides them information as if they were in control of the car. We mitigate the lack of driver control by displaying the AV function at the focal point of our UI. This implementation gives users a comfort basis that allows for their confidence as AV passengers to grow as they ride.

Future Implementation

The design we have established thus far is still in a rudimentary state compared to what will eventually hit the AV market in the future. Our core design has created the foundation for an interface that suits the needs of apprehensive users. Future work could include expansions from the primary UI so users could view more specific information regarding vehicle conditions, environment conditions, status of the AV function, and other supplemental information. Beyond this, one of the largest barriers to market entry is a extensive amount of testing that would be required to harmonize our interface functionality with the vehicle itself.