You've Lost That Queasy Feeling…
- Magazine Article
- 19AVEP11_06
- English
Transcontinental research aims to understand the complexities of motion sickness to help improve the automated-vehicle experience.
Because motion sickness is different for everyone, Monica Jones, assistant research scientist in the biosciences group at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), envisioned one particular need for effective study: a consistent and repeatable testing protocol. This called for a motion-sickness testbed. Jones explains that remarkably, conducting the tests in real vehicles on real roads has, until recently, been rare.