On Trustworthy Decision-Making Process of Human Drivers From the View of Perceptual Uncertainty Reduction

Huanjie Wang, Haibin Liu*, Wenshuo Wang*, Lijun Sun

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Abstract

Humans are experts at making decisions for challenging driving tasks with uncertainties. Many efforts have been made to model the decision-making process of human drivers at the behavior level. However, limited studies explain how human drivers actively make trustworthy sequential decisions to complete interactive driving tasks in an uncertain environment. This paper argues that human drivers intently search for actions to reduce the uncertainty of their perception of the environment, i.e., perceptual uncertainty, to a low level that allows them to make a trustworthy decision easily. This paper provides a proof-of-concept framework to empirically reveal that human drivers' perceptual uncertainty decreases when executing interactive tasks with uncertainties. We first introduce an explainable-artificial intelligence approach (i.e., SHapley Additive exPlanation, SHAP) to determine the salient features on which human drivers base decisions. Then, we use entropy-based measures to quantify the drivers' perceptual changes in these ranked salient features across the decision-making process, reflecting the changes in uncertainties. The validation and verification of our proposed method are conducted in the highway on-ramp merging scenario with congested traffic using the INTERACTION dataset. Experimental results support that human drivers intentionally seek information to reduce their perceptual uncertainties in the number and rank of salient features of their perception of environments to make a trustworthy decision.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1625-1636
Number of pages12
JournalIEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Volume25
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2024
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Trustworthy decision-making
  • human driver
  • interaction
  • uncertainty

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