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Title:

COLLISION AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR OF UNALERTED DRIVERS USING A FRONT-TO-REAR-END COLLISION WARNING DISPLAY ON THE IOWA DRIVING SIMULATOR

Accession Number:

00741939

Record Type:

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Abstract:

This study investigated whether drivers who operate a vehicle equipped with a front-to-rear-end collision warning system can avoid crashing when a lead vehicle brakes at its maximum potential (e.g., -0.85g). Drivers in the experimental condition drove a 1993 General Motors Saturn mounted on the Iowa Driving Simulator's six-degree-of-freedom motion base. The simulator cab was equipped with a collision warning display that provided a primary auditory warning and secondary visual warning based on a time-to-collision algorithm between the subject's vehicle and the lead vehicle. Two headway distances were tested (2.7 sec and 3.2 sec). The collision avoidance performance of subject drivers was compared to the behavior of drivers in a baseline condition where no collision warning display was present. Relative to the baseline condition, results indicate that drivers using the collision warning display (a) showed significantly fewer crashes in the shorter headway condition, (b) collided with the lead vehicle at significantly slower impact speeds, (c) released the accelerator significantly faster, and (d) had longer headways both at accelerator release and brake initiation.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1573, Human Performance in Intelligent Transportation Systems, Information Systems, and Highway Design and Older Drivers.

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

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Washington, DC 20001 USA

Authors:

Lee, Jong Jae
MCGEHEE, D V
Dingus, T A
Wilson, T

Pagination:

p. 1-7

Publication Date:

1997

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 1573
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

0309061547

Features:

Figures (6) ; References (16)

Old TRIS Terms:

Subject Areas:

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Last Modified:

Nov 4 1997 12:00AM

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