Journal article
Human Factors Field Evaluation of Automotive Headway Maintenance/Collision Warning Devices
Human factors, Vol.39(2), pp.216-229
06/1997
DOI: 10.1518/001872097778543930
PMID: 9302889
Abstract
Three on-road studies were conducted to determine how headway maintenance and collision warning displays influence driver behavior. Visual perspective, visual perspective with a pointer, visual perspective combined with an auditory warning, discrete visual warning, and discrete auditory warning were assessed during both coupled headway and deceleration events. Results indicate that when drivers are provided with salient visual information regarding safe headways, they utilize the information and increase their headway when appropriate. Auditory warnings were less effective than visual warnings for increasing headways but may be helpful for improving reaction time during events that require deceleration. Drivers were some what insensitive to false alarm rates, at least during short-term use. Finally, and most important, driver headway maintenance increased by as much as 0.5 s when the appropriate visual display was used. However, a study to investigate the long term effects of such displays on behavior is strongly recommended prior to mass marketing of headway maintenance/collision warning devices.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Human Factors Field Evaluation of Automotive Headway Maintenance/Collision Warning Devices
- Creators
- Thomas A Dingus - Virginia TechDaniel V McGehee - University of IowaNatarajan Manakkal - University of IowaSteven K Jahns - University of IowaCher Carney - University of IowaJonathan M Hankey - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Human factors, Vol.39(2), pp.216-229
- DOI
- 10.1518/001872097778543930
- PMID
- 9302889
- NLM abbreviation
- Hum Factors
- ISSN
- 0018-7208
- eISSN
- 1547-8181
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/1997
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health; Emergency Medicine; Driving Safety Research Institute; Industrial and Systems Engineering; Center for Social Science Innovation; Injury Prevention Research Center; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984186960902771
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