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Novice drivers are overrepresented in left-turn-across-path [LTAP] intersection crashes. In fact, 16 and 17 year old drivers are more likely to be killed in LTAP crash types than they are in any other crash type. The previous research demonstrates one of the reasons why this is the case: novice drivers are less likely to anticipate hazards within an intersection. But it did not show whether failures to anticipate the hazards within intersections were linked to failures to mitigate the hazards such as slowing or yielding. This research was an effort to compare the linked hazard anticipation and hazard mitigation behaviors of novice drivers with exemplary experienced drivers at LTAP situations. Each participant in the experiment drove in a virtual world using a Realtime Technologies, Inc. driving simulator for approximately 36 minutes. During the drive, participants navigated two LTAP configurations in the virtual world, one of which included a through movement at an intersection obstructed by traffic in the adjacent lane that obstructed the turning traffic, and one of which included approaching traffic at all three legs before the driver had to decide whether to turn. Experienced drivers made more anticipatory glances, began slowing significantly earlier, and slowed significantly more when approaching an intersection with the potential for latent hazards than did the novice drivers. However, those novice drivers who anticipated the hazards were much more likely than those who did not to also mitigate the hazard. The use of these results in a PC-based driver hazard mitigation training program will be discussed.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB30 Operator Education and Regulation. Alternate title: Comparison of Anticipatory Glancing and Risk Mitigation of Novice Drivers and Exemplary Drivers Approaching Intersections in Driving Simulator.

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14-5698

English

16p

2014

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Driver experience; Driver performance; Driving simulators; Eye movements; Intersections; Left turns; Recently qualified drivers; Teenage drivers

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-5698

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 27 2014 3:59PM