Detection of collision events by older and younger drivers.

Author(s)
Andersen, G.J. Saidpour, A. & Enriquez, A.
Year
Abstract

Recently it has been found that older drivers had poorer performance than younger drivers at detecting an impending collision during braking. In the present study, whether older drivers have poorer performance than younger drivers at detecting a collision with a moving object was examined. 22 older and younger drivers were presented with computer generated scenes of a roadway in a driving simulator. Located in the scene was a single object that moved independently of the vehicle motion and that was or was not on a collision path with the vehicle. Overall older drivers were less sensitive to detect a collision than younger drivers, with performance worse for long than for short time to contact (TTC) conditions.

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Library number
C 22082 (In: C 22030 [electronic version only]) /83 / ITRD E113164
Source

In: Proceedings of the first international driving symposium on human factors in driver assessment, training and vehicle design, held Aspen, Colorado, August 14-17, 2001, p. 255-258, 2 ref.

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