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arxiv: 2605.00377 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-01 · 💻 cs.HC

An eHMI Presenting Request-to-Intervene and Takeover Status of Level 3 Automated Vehicles to Support Surrounding Traffic Safety

Hailong Liu , Masaki Kuge , Toshihiro Hiraoka , Takahiro Wada This is my paper

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keywords eHMILevel 3 automated vehiclesrequest to intervenetakeover transitionexternal human-machine interfacesurrounding traffic safetydriving simulatoraccident prevention
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The pith

External lights on Level 3 cars that signal a driver takeover reduce crash odds for following vehicles by 76.8 percent.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Level 3 automated vehicles issue a request to intervene when automation reaches its limits, yet this critical transition remains invisible to surrounding drivers. The authors created an external interface called eHMI C+O that uses cyan and orange light bars to make the request and the subsequent takeover visible. In a simulator study with 40 participants, the lights improved understanding of the automated vehicle's plans, reduced hesitation, and prompted earlier increases in following distance. These changes produced a 76.8 percent reduction in the odds of an accident for the vehicle behind when the automated car failed during takeover.

Core claim

The proposed eHMI C+O externalizes the request-to-intervene and takeover status of Level 3 automated vehicles using cyan and orange light bars. Compared with an ADS-status-only interface and a no-eHMI baseline, it improves surrounding drivers' understanding of the vehicle's intentions, their ability to predict its behavior, and their sense that enough information has been provided. It also leads to earlier and larger increases in time headway, higher confidence, lower hesitation, and a 76.8 percent reduction in accident odds for following vehicles in simulated takeover-failure scenarios. Path analysis links these safety gains to better situation awareness and more timely defensive responses.

What carries the argument

eHMI C+O, an external human-machine interface that uses sequential cyan and orange light bars to communicate the request-to-intervene and takeover status of a Level 3 automated vehicle to surrounding traffic.

If this is right

  • Surrounding drivers gain clearer understanding of the automated vehicle's driving intention and future behavior during takeover transitions.
  • Drivers increase time headway earlier and by larger amounts after the request to intervene is issued.
  • The odds of accident involvement for the following vehicle drop substantially when the automated vehicle encounters a failure during takeover.
  • Drivers report higher confidence, lower hesitation, and greater satisfaction with the information supplied by the automated vehicle.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Standardized external signals could become a practical requirement for Level 3 vehicles to support safe operation in mixed traffic.
  • The same light-based approach might be extended to communicate other automation states such as sensor degradation or impending minimum-risk maneuvers.
  • Real-road trials would need to test performance across different lighting conditions, weather, and driver populations to confirm the simulator benefits.
  • Widespread adoption would benefit from cross-manufacturer agreement on light colors and meanings to prevent confusion among drivers.

Load-bearing premise

The controlled simulator findings with 40 participants will generalize to real mixed traffic that includes varied drivers, road conditions, and unexpected events.

What would settle it

A field study on public roads that measures actual or near-miss incidents for following vehicles during Level 3 AV takeover events, with and without the cyan-orange eHMI, to check whether the 76.8 percent accident-odds reduction persists.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.00377 by Hailong Liu, Masaki Kuge, Takahiro Wada, Toshihiro Hiraoka.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: The proposed eHMI and the other eHMIs used for comparison in the experiment. view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: The diving simulator used in the experiment. view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Driving simulator scenarios used in the experiment. The view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: The results of the post-trial questionnaire. view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: The results of the post-experiment questionnaire. view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Changes in THW after the AV issued the RtI under view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Final exploratory piecewise structural equation model view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Level 3 automated vehicles (AVs) issue a request to intervene (RtI) when the automated driving system approaches its system limitations. Although this takeover transition is safety-critical, it is usually invisible to surrounding manually driven vehicle (MV) drivers. This study proposes an external human-machine interface (eHMI) called eHMI C+O that externalizes the RtI-related takeover status of a Level~3 AV using cyan and orange light bars. A driving-simulator experiment with 40 participants examined whether the proposed eHMI supports surrounding MV drivers during AV takeover scenarios. The results showed that, compared with the ADS-status-only eHMI condition, which is similar to ``Automated Driving Marker Lights,'' and the no-eHMI condition, the proposed eHMI C+O significantly improved participants' understanding of the AV's driving intention, their prediction of its behavior, and their perceived sufficiency of the information presented by the AV. It also reduced hesitation, increased confidence, and promoted earlier and larger increases in time headway after the RtI was issued. In the AV accident scenario, eHMI C+O significantly reduced the odds of accident involvement for the following MV compared with the no-eHMI condition, corresponding to a 76.8% reduction in accident odds. Exploratory path analysis suggested that the safety benefit of the proposed eHMI C+O may be associated with improved situation awareness and earlier defensive driving responses. These findings indicate that externalizing RtI-related takeover status can help surrounding drivers better understand Level 3 AVs and respond more safely during safety-critical takeover transitions.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 3 minor

Summary. The paper proposes an eHMI (eHMI C+O) that uses cyan and orange light bars to externalize the request-to-intervene (RtI) and takeover status of Level 3 AVs for surrounding manually driven vehicle drivers. A driving-simulator experiment (N=40) compares this design against an ADS-status-only eHMI and a no-eHMI baseline. The central claims are that eHMI C+O improves surrounding drivers' understanding of AV intentions, behavioral prediction, and perceived information sufficiency; reduces hesitation while increasing confidence; elicits earlier and larger time-headway increases; and, in a scripted AV accident scenario, reduces accident involvement odds by 76.8% relative to no-eHMI. Exploratory path analysis links these safety benefits to improved situation awareness and earlier defensive responses.

Significance. If the simulator results hold under broader conditions, the work would provide actionable evidence that externalizing RtI-related states can measurably enhance surrounding traffic safety during Level 3 takeover transitions. The reported 76.8% odds reduction is a large effect that, if replicable, would be of practical interest to eHMI designers and regulators. The study is strengthened by its use of multiple dependent measures and an exploratory path model that attempts to trace mechanisms rather than reporting isolated significance tests. No reproducible code or machine-checked proofs are present, but the protocol could support future replication if fuller methodological details are supplied.

major comments (2)
  1. [Methods] Methods section (participant and procedure description): exclusion criteria, demographic details beyond basic descriptors, power analysis or sample-size justification for N=40, and the precise logistic-regression specification used to obtain the 76.8% accident-odds reduction are not reported. These omissions are load-bearing for verifying the central safety claim.
  2. [Results] Results, AV accident scenario paragraph: the 76.8% odds reduction is stated without confidence intervals, the exact p-value or test statistic for the C+O vs. no-eHMI contrast, or the underlying contingency table. This prevents assessment of estimate precision and robustness.
minor comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract and early sections: the abbreviation 'C+O' is not expanded on first use, and specific p-values or test statistics for the reported improvements in understanding, prediction, and headway are omitted.
  2. [Figures] Figures showing time headway or situation-awareness metrics: error bars, significance annotations, and participant-level variability are missing, reducing interpretability.
  3. [Discussion] Discussion: a more explicit statement of simulator-to-real-world transfer limitations (e.g., absence of physical risk, fixed geometry, homogeneous participants) would strengthen the manuscript without altering the central claims.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which highlight important aspects of transparency in our methods and results. We address each point below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate the requested details.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [Methods] Methods section (participant and procedure description): exclusion criteria, demographic details beyond basic descriptors, power analysis or sample-size justification for N=40, and the precise logistic-regression specification used to obtain the 76.8% accident-odds reduction are not reported. These omissions are load-bearing for verifying the central safety claim.

    Authors: We agree these elements are necessary for full verification and replication. In the revised manuscript we will expand the Methods section to explicitly list the exclusion criteria applied during recruitment, provide additional demographic descriptors (such as age distribution, gender balance, and driving experience), include a sample-size justification referencing effect sizes from prior eHMI studies that informed our target of N=40, and report the complete logistic-regression specification (model formula, predictors, and any covariates) used for the accident-odds analysis. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results] Results, AV accident scenario paragraph: the 76.8% odds reduction is stated without confidence intervals, the exact p-value or test statistic for the C+O vs. no-eHMI contrast, or the underlying contingency table. This prevents assessment of estimate precision and robustness.

    Authors: We acknowledge that these statistics are required to evaluate precision and robustness. We will update the AV accident scenario paragraph to include the 95% confidence interval for the odds ratio, the exact p-value and Wald or likelihood-ratio test statistic for the C+O versus no-eHMI contrast, and the 2x2 contingency table of accident involvement counts by condition. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical simulator study with direct statistical outcomes

full rationale

The paper reports results from a controlled driving-simulator experiment (N=40) measuring participant responses, situation awareness, headway changes, and accident involvement odds in scripted AV takeover scenarios. The 76.8% odds reduction is a direct statistical finding from the collected data under the no-eHMI baseline, not a fitted parameter renamed as a prediction or derived via equations that loop back to inputs. No mathematical derivations, ansatzes, uniqueness theorems, or self-citation chains appear in the abstract or described methods; the central claims rest on observable experimental outcomes rather than self-referential constructions.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Empirical HCI study with no mathematical model; the interface is a designed artifact tested experimentally rather than derived from axioms or parameters.

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