This project had two primary objectives: (1) the development of a special-purpose vehicle rear lighting research methodology, and (2) the utilization of the new methodology to generate preliminary design recommendations. An abstract of the conclusions and recommendations resulting from the study follows: (1) the special-purpose methodology developed during the project provided a highly effective tool for generating system requirements, design approaches, and performance evaluation data, (2) the newly developed technique for superimposing images of experimental vehicle configurations onto the highway scenes in the driving simulation laboratory proved to be effective; subject-driver reacted to the display in a manner appropriate to an actual driving experience. (3) the recommendations are not intended to stand alone as the end-product; they simply summarize the more general conclusions drawn from this initial phase of the study, and (4) standardization is imperative. /Author/
Samenvatting