Automated Vehicles Symposium 2019

Dan McGehee
Director of the National Advanced Driving Simulator
University of Iowa College of Engineering


Dr. Daniel V. McGehee is an internationally recognized vehicle safety and driver attention researcher who is director of the National Advanced Driving Simulator and a professor in the department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Emergency Medicine, and Public Health. For over 25 years Dr. McGehee has conducted research and design in driver attention and advanced vehicle safety systems as they relate to driver performance. He developed the first prototype forward collision warning systems for General Motors in the early 1990s and conducted one of the first automated vehicle simulator trials in 1994. He is currently a member of the US delegation of the Trilateral Human Factors in Automation group that splits its time between Europe, Japan and the US. Dr. McGehee began his career at Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the Advanced Flight Deck Research Department where he studied pilot performance and cockpit design. He has been a principal or co-principal investigator of over $40 million in research for the US DOT, NIH and the automotive industry and has over 150 scientific publications in the areas of distraction, driver response and technology research and development.

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