OBJECTIVE To examine whether some drivers with hemianopia or quadrantanopia display safe driving skills on the road compared with drivers with normal visual fields. METHOD An occupational therapist evaluated 22 people with hemianopia, 8 with quadrantanopia, and 30 with normal vision for driving skills during naturalistic driving using six rating scales. RESULTS Of drivers with normal vision...

Navigating a new route during automobile driving uses the driver's cognitive resources and has the potential to impair driving ability in people with Parkinson's disease (PD). Our aim was to assess navigation and safety errors during a route following task (RFT) in drivers with the illness. Seventy-seven subjects with mild-moderate PD (median Hoehn-Yahr stage = 2.0) and 152 neurologically norma...

OBJECTIVE In this study, we aimed to quantify and compare performance of middle-aged and older drivers during a naturalistic distraction paradigm (visual search for roadside targets) and to predict older drivers performance given functioning in visual, motor, and cognitive domains. BACKGROUND Distracted driving can imperil healthy adults and may disproportionally affect the safety of older dr...

1 Both perceptual errors (failing to perceive) and appraisal errors (failing to make a correct judgment about 2 safety) could explain the relatively high number of pulling out at the junctions involving approaching 3 motorcycles in relation to cars. Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of 4 exposure to motorcycles on these types of errors by comparing drivers from Malaysia w...

backgrounds and aims: characteristic property among tehran offensive and non- offensive drivers using cloninger , s treatment and character inventory questionnaire was studied. materials and methods: a cross- sectional study was carried out after coordinating with traffic police. 300 drivers: 150 offensive ( drivers with more than ten penalty points and 150 non- offensive drivers with less than...

The aim of the study was to find typical errors of traffic participants leading to frequent traffic-conflicts. For this purpose ~5 registered conilicts and the types of behavior leading to them by observing 201 subjects driving along a standardized route and describing their behawar. The data collected this way. together uith Intormation about the driving record of the subjects obtained in expl...

Novice young drivers suffer from increased crash risk that translates into over-representation in road injuries. In order to effectively confront this problem, a better understanding of the driving behavior of novice young drivers and of its determinants is needed. This study analyzes the behavior of novice young drivers within a Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) program. Data on driving behavio...

Often network users are not perfectly rational, especially when they are satisficing—rather than optimizing— decision makers and each individual’s perception of the decision environment reflects personal preferences or perception errors due to lack of information. While the assumption of satisficing drivers has been used in modeling route choice behavior, this research uses a link-based percept...