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- Rebuilding driver situation awareness through the use of augmented realityPublication . Rodrigues, Rúben José Gouveia; Quintal, Filipe; Esteves, AugustoMore and more automation is becoming available in cars with the objective of ultimately making the driver just another passenger in the vehicle. However, before getting to that point, which is still very much in the distant future, any automated driving system will need to coexist with the driver, handing back control when the automation can not handle a situation it faces. Yet, in some situations, the driver may not be fully ready to take back control of the vehicle, since one of the big benefits that automation in the car will bring is the possibility of undertaking more complex non-driving tasks when the automated system is driving the vehicle, which might cause a loss of situational awareness. Safe driving requires significant situational awareness and a control that becomes almost subcon scious to the driver when in said driving task, but if the driver is engaging in non-driving related tasks when the automation is active, he/she may lose the situational awareness needed to resume the driving task. It’s with this in mind we propose two new designs of the takeover request (TOR), through the use of Augmented Reality (AR), to help the driver regain that situational awareness, without sacrificing the driver’s recovery of the control of the vehicle. This way the driver can safely take back control, given a non-critical situation that the autonomous system can not handle.