Driving , aging , and temporal factors in vision : an exploratory study

Driving is one of the most complex tasks that people perform on a regular basis. Driving places major demands on human perceptual, cognitive, and motor capabilities and so age-related declines in these capabilities negatively affect driving performance. Given that driving largely involves the processing of visual information that changes rapidly over time, agerelated changes in dynamic visual abilities are likely to have some impact on driving performance. Driving anD age-relateD visual Declines With age, a number of changes occur in the human eye that result in the visual system operating less efficiently. One of the major declines in vision due to aging involves visual acuity. Contrast sensitivity also declines with age. Furthermore, older adults tend to be more affected by glare and have a longer recovery time after having been subjected to it.