Toward developing an approach for alerting drivers to the direction of a crash threat

Human Factors

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 710-720

  Fitch, Gregory M ^a,d   Kiefer, Raymond J ^b   Hankey, Jonathan M ^a   Kleiner, Brian M ^c  

^a VIRGINIA TECH TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRASH AVOIDANCE SYSTEMS; CRASH THREATS; HAPTIC SEAT ALERTS;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; AUTOMOBILE SEATS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; DRIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; THREAT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIBRATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; COGNITION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547215771     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872007X215782     Document Type: Article

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