Detection of vehicles on the other crossing path at an intersection: visual search performance of elderly drivers
✍ Scribed by Nobuyuki Uchida; Kazuo Fujita; Tsuyoshi Katayama
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 461 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0389-4304
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✦ Synopsis
At intersections with good visibility, such as those located in rice "elds, relatively many fatal accidents involving elderly drivers happen in Japan. In the present study, the causative factor of these accidents was examined from the viewpoint of visual search performance. It was shown that a vehicle that is not on collision course can be easily detected by peripheral vision. No age related deterioration of the detection performance in the peripheral visual "eld was found. However, the detection of a vehicle on collision course in the peripheral visual "eld was more di$cult for elderly drivers. No age di!erence in detection performance was found when drivers were allowed to actively search the road scene by central vision. It can be concluded that active checking of the periphery at intersections with good visibility is more important for elderly drivers than for young drivers.