Driver perceptual error and child pedestrian accidents.

Author(s)
Stewart, D.
Year
Abstract

Children crossing roads have a far higher accident rate than adults. It has generally been assumed that this is because children are less able to make safe judgements. An alternative explanation is examined, that drivers themselves are liable to misjudge time- to- collision to pedestrians because of difficulties in perceiving optic flow and size.

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Library number
B 31431 (In: B 31415 [electronic version only]) /80 /83 / IRRD 839994
Source

In: Vision in Vehicles III : proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Vision in Vehicles, Aachen, FRG, 1- 15 September 1989, published by Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1991, p. 143- 152, 6 ref.

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