08/10/2026
A traffic light, a nearby vehicle, a person about to cross: drivers take in more than one signal before deciding what to do.
That makes human driving difficult to capture in a model.
The same situation can lead to different responses, and those differences matter when automated vehicles share the road with people.
Understanding those choices is at the heart of BERTHA, an EU-funded project developing an open driver behavior model for complex traffic environments.
Smart Eye contributes data on driver state and behavior to help ground the model in how people actually respond on the road.
BERTHA combines simulator research with work in real vehicles. The video shows some of that work: a car detects a person crossing the road and stops automatically.
The broader project supports the development of future driver assistance and safety systems.
Explore the BERTHA project: https://hubs.ly/Q04zzlHj0