The development of automated driving is an ongoing process; nonetheless, certain problems remain unresolved. One of them is the question when the automated vehicle control system should hand over the control to a human driver and whether this can be done in a safe way. What happens if a driver is not ready to take over? Can the system somehow estimate the status of the driver? The WACHsens simulator study was designed with the aim to gain more knowledge about when and how drivers are getting

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... epy with special focus on automated driving.The overall goal of the project was to merge data from vegetative vigilance, camera observation and driving behaviour. Driving and tiredness: Results of the behaviour observation of a simulator study with special focus on automated driving systems that assume a driver as emergency fallback. Further research is recommended to investigate safe modes of control hand over in automated driving.