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The U.S. driver education and training literature was reviewed to identify rules and/or recommendations with regard to driver eye scanning behavior and strategies, where a driver ought to fixate his eyes when driving, specifically when driving through a curve. In addition, driver eye scanning behavior was recorded and analyzed for 9 drivers driving through 240 feet radius right cruves (unlighted interstate entrance and exit ramps, 270 degree turns) at night with low beams. An instrumented car with a corneal reflection technique television eye scanning system was used. Each driver made a number of runs through the curves (average speed 26 mph) and the driver eye fixation sequences were analyzed for three to eight runs per driver, yielding a total of 51 analyzed runs. Results showed that the expected number of consecutive forward eye fixations (including forward ending eye fixations) is 1.89, while that of backward eye fixations (including backward ending eye fixations) is 1.26.

VTI Rapport 372A, Part 2

English

v.p.

1991

VTI Rapport

Proceedings of the Conference, Strategic Highway Research Program and Traffic Safety on Two Continents, Part Two

Figures; References

Drivers; Eye fixations; Eye movements; Night vision; Steering; Vision; Vision tests

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

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Nov 22 1993 12:00AM

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