01025682

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/1980-10

http://scholar.google.com...rton&publication_year=2006

Eyeglance behavior and scanning patterns may be learned as a driver gains experience and lead to greater situation awareness on the part of the driver. This may help to explain differences observed in the safety records of novice teen and experienced adult drivers. For example, new drivers may focus almost exclusively on the road ahead and spend little time scanning the vehicle’s mirrors. However, a novice driver performing a secondary task may spend more time with his or her eyes on the task than on the road, because of unfamiliarity with the vehicle or in-experience with consequences of long glances away from the forward view. For this study, 18 novice teen (under 17.5 years old and within 4 weeks of licensure) and 18 experienced adult drivers performed a set of in-vehicle tasks on a test track. A baseline driving segment was also included. Measures consisted of percentage of eyes-off-road (EOR) time, number of glances, and mean single-glance time. Results showed that teens glanced at the rearview mirror significantly fewer times than did adults, both during baseline driving and while performing in- vehicle tasks. Teens also had a significantly higher percentage of EOR time than adults had while performing a challenging reading task. The novice teen drivers spent more of their overall EOR time looking at the task display (e.g., cell phone), whereas adults used some EOR time to check mirrors or windows. Overall findings indicate that novice teens may lack the situation awareness of experienced adults.

01041093

English

pp 57-64

2006

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

0309099900

Print

Figures (4) ; References (29) ; Tables (1)

Adults; Attention lapses; Driver experience; Drivers; Eye location; Eye movements; Human subject testing; Mirrors; Novices; Rearview mirrors; Safety; Teenage drivers; Test tracks

Glance duration; In-vehicle tasks

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

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Mar 3 2006 10:36AM

• Assessing Driver Distraction from Cell Phone Use: A Simulator-Based Study
• Design of Simulator Scenarios to Study Effectiveness of Electronic Stability Control Systems
• Driver Response to Rainfall on Urban Expressways
• Effects of Adaptive Cruise Control and Alert Modality on Driver Performance
• Enhancing Highway Geometric Design: Development of Interactive Virtual Reality Visualization System with Open-Source Technologies
• Factors Affecting Common Vehicle-to-Vehicle Collision Types: Road Safety Priorities in an Aging Society
• Highway Traffic Response to Dynamic Fog Warning and Speed Advisory Messages
• Hindsight Judgment of Driver Fault in Traffic Accident Analysis: Misusing the Science of Accident Reconstruction
• How Multitasking Interacts with Visual Impairment and Age on Measures of Driving Performance
• How Reliable Is This Route? Predictive Travel Time and Reliability for Anticipatory Traveler Information Systems
• Impact of Highway Safety Flares on Driver Behavior
• Implications of Risk Perception Under Assumption of Rational Driver Behavior
• Modeling Pipeline Driving Behaviors: Hidden Markov Model Approach
• Responses to Enhanced Wildlife Advisories in a Simulated Environment
• Rewards for Safe Driving Behavior: Influence on Following Distance and Speed
• Simple Way to Use Closed-Circuit Television Road Images for Poor-Visibility Information