Time-to-collision judgments under realistic driving conditions

Human Factors

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 334-345

  Kiefer, Raymond J ^a   Flannagan, Carol A ^b   Jerome, Christian J ^c,d  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALERT TIMING APPROACH; CRASH SCENARIO CONDITIONS; TIME TO COLLISION (TTC);

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER VISION; DRIVER TRAINING; ERGONOMICS; VEHICLE LOCATING SYSTEMS;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CAR DRIVING; DECELERATION; DECISION MAKING; DRIVING ABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SIMULATOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VELOCITY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGED; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33745967423     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872006777724499     Document Type: Article

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