COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTS OF MARIHUANA AND ALCOHOL ON SIMULATED DRIVING PERFORMANCE

THE EFFECTS OF MARIHUANA, ALCOHOL, AND NO TREATMENT ON SIMULATED DRIVING PERFORMANCE WERE DETERMINED FOR EXPERIENCED MARIHUANA SMOKERS. SUBJECTS EXPERIENCING A "SOCIAL MARIHUANA HIGH" ACCUMULATED SIGNIFICANTLY MORE SPEEDOMETER ERRORS THAN WHEN UNDER CONTROL CONDITIONS, WHEREAS THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN ACCELERATOR, BRAKE, SIGNAL, STEERING, AND TOTAL ERRORS. THE SAME SUBJECTS INTOXICATED FROM ALCOHOL ACCUMULATED SIGNIFICANTLY MORE ACCELERATOR, BRAKE, SIGNAL, SPEEDOMETER, AND TOTAL ERRORS THAN UNDER NORMAL CONDITIONS, WHEREAS THERE WAS NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN STEERING ERRORS. IMPAIRMENT IN SIMULATED DRIVING PERFORMANCE DOES NOT SEEM TO BE A FUNCTION OF INCREASED MARIHUANA DOSAGE OR INEXPERIENCE WITH THE DRUG. /AUTHOR/

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 164, No 3881, pp 851-854, 1Fig, 1 Tab, 1 Ref.
• Corporate Authors:

  Washington State Department of Motor Vehicles

  Olympia, WA  United States  98501
• Authors:
  • Crancer, A
• Publication Date: 1969-5-16

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Science
  • Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • ISSN: 0036-8075
  • Serial URL: http://science.sciencemag.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcohols; Alternatives analysis; Driver performance; Drivers; Driving simulators; Drugs; Impacts; Marijuana; Personnel performance
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223013
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 12 1970 12:00AM