THE EFFECTS OF MARIJUANA AND ALCOHOL ON SIMULATED DRIVING PERFORMANCE

STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE EFFECT OF A "NORMAL SOCIAL MARIJUANA HIGH" ON SIMULATED DRIVING PERFORMANCE. EXPERIENCED MARIJUANA SMOKERS ACCUMULATED SIGNIFICANTLY MORE SPEEDOMETER ERRORS ON THE SIMULATOR WHILE THE SAME SUBJECTS INTOXICATED FROM ALCOHOL ACCUMULATED MORE ACCELERATOR, BRAKE SIGNAL, SPEEDOMETER, AND TOTAL ERRORS BUT NOT STEERING ERRORS. IMPAIRMENT IN SIMULATED DRIVING PERFORMANCE IS NOT A FUNCTION OF INCREASED MARIJUANA DOSAGE. /HSL/

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 164, No 3881, PP 851-854
• Corporate Authors:

  Washington State Department of Motor Vehicles

  Olympia, WA  United States  98501
• Authors:
  • Crancer, A
  • Dille, J M
  • Delay, J C
  • WALLACE, J E
  • Haykin, M D
• 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; Driver performance; Drivers; Driving simulators; Drugs; Errors; Personnel performance
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223044
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 19 1971 12:00AM