Oliver Carsten is Professor of Transport Safety at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. His major research focus is on driver interaction and safety with driver assistance and automation systems. He led the UK national project on Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) and had a role in persuading the EU to regulate ISA into all new vehicles. He has acted as chair of the Road User Behaviour Working Party of PACTS, the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety. He has provided advice on safety policy to the UK Department for Transport and to the European Commission, especially on behalf of the European Transport Safety Council. He was a member of the European Commission’s GEAR 2030 High-Level Group on the future of the European automobile industry. He is heavily involved in international regulatory activities on vehicle automation both on the road user side where he is a member of the Informal Group of Experts on Automated Driving (IGEAD) under UNECE WP.1 (The Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety) and on the vehicle side as a member of a series of informal groups under UNECE WP.29 (The World Forum for the Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations), contributing in particular on how automated systems should interact with users. He also leads an informal group of human factors experts on automation under the auspices of the International Ergonomics Association, with the aim of providing human factors advice to international regulators in the area of automation. He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Cognition, Technology and Work.