Pedestrians' estimates of their own visibility at night are not reduced when headlights are severely weakened

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1860-1863

  Whetsel, Stephanie A ^a   Rosenberg, Rachel L ^a   Balk, Stacy A ^a   Tyrrell, Richard A ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSPICUITY;

ERGONOMICS; HEADLIGHTS;

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY;

EID: 82055184984     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1177/1071181311551387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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