Abstract
Aiming at young drivers’ hazard perception (HP) and eye movement, a cross-sectional study was conducted in the city of Xi’an, China. 46 participants were recruited, and 35 traffic scenes were used to test drivers’ hazard perception and eye movement. The difference analysis and correlation analysis were carried out for the acquired data. The results suggest that some indices of hazard perception and eye movement are significantly correlated. A higher saccade speed is in the direction of higher hazardous scenes. Higher complex scenes result in smaller saccade angle. The number of hazards unidentified is negatively influenced by complexity degree and hazardous degree of traffic scenes, and similar associations are found between hazard identification time, complexity degree, and hazardous degree. The hazard identification time and the number of hazards slowly identified are positively affected by the number of fixations and the number of saccades. Meanwhile, differences in the hazardous degree evaluation, hazard identification time, number of hazards unidentified, number of fixations, and number of saccades are found in different types of traffic scenes. The results help us to improve the design of road and vehicle devices, as well as the assessment and enhancement of young drivers’ hazard perception skills.
Highlights
Young drivers are getting a lot of attention because they are involved in more road traffic accidents
It is obvious that the number of hazards unidentified in Category 5 is much more than that in other traffic scenes. e potential hazards with no obvious cue in the scenes are much less likely to be identified
With the help of ANOVA, the results suggested that the young driver characteristics in Table 1 have no significant impact on these indicators
Summary
Young drivers are getting a lot of attention because they are involved in more road traffic accidents. Young male drivers have lower hazard perception (HP) skills than older and more experienced drivers, but there is a tendency for them to overestimate their driving skills in hazardous situations, and both factors contribute to an overrepresentation in traffic accidents [1]. Hazard perception is usually considered as the ability to “read the road” or the awareness of hazardous situations [2]. It is the process of detecting, evaluating, and responding to dangerous events on the road that have a high likelihood of leading to a collision [3, 4]. Young drivers’ objective and subjective HP skills were consistent, only for visible hazards. Investigations into visuomotor control should be most useful when conducted in settings that incorporate the intrinsic link between vision and action
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