Car backlight position and fog density bias observer-car distance estimates and time-to-collision judgments

Human Factors

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 300-317

  Buchner, Axel ^a   Brandt, Martin ^b   Bell, Raoul ^a   Weise, Judith ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; ERGONOMICS; PASSENGER CARS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

BACKLIGHT PLACEMENT; CAR BACKLIGHT POSITION; TIME-TO-COLLISION;

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FOG; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AUTOMOBILES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LIGHTING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; WEATHER;

EID: 33745967930     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872006777724363     Document Type: Article

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