Vision and Night Driving Abilities of Elderly Drivers

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 477-485

  Gruber, Nicole ^a   Mosimann, Urs P ^a   Müri, René M ^a   Nef, Tobias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

glare sensitivity; night driving; photopic and mesopic visual acuity; useful field of view; visual field

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DARK ADAPTATION; GLARE; HUMAN; MESOPIC VISION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGING; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; GLARE; HUMANS; MESOPIC VISION; NIGHT VISION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84878807303     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2012.727510     Document Type: Article

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