Integrating Intrinsic Reasoning and Negotiation Mechanisms in Driver-Driver Social Interactions*

This paper structures the human-intrinsic social interaction mechanism derived in the field of humanities and applied the designed mechanism into the driver-driver interaction in lane-merging scenarios. Social interaction mechanism consists of the intrinsic reasoning-based decision-making mechanism and negotiation mechanism. Negotiation mechanism for social interaction between drivers should be established both distributive strategy and integrative strategy because drivers sometimes adjust their decisions by yielding their utilities to maximize the mutual utility with the other driver. The structured social interaction mechanism is validated by comparing the extracted decision results with the real driving database with the simply designed utility. The proposed social interaction mechanism can be applied to explain the process and reason of decision-making for a lane-keeping and a lane-changing vehicle in lane-merging scenarios.