On-Road Assessment of Retention Effects on Hazard Anticipation Training for Novice Drivers
The failure to anticipate latent hazards (hazards that have not materialized) is a major cause for crashes among teen drivers, due both to their lack of experience and to their distraction while driving. Several training programs that have been developed to improve drivers’ anticipation skills have proven effective immediately after training, both on driving simulators and on the open road. The current study reports on an on-road longitudinal evaluation of the longer-term effectiveness of an iPad-based training program, the Engaged Driver Training System (EDTS), at improving novice drivers’ latent hazard anticipation skills, initially a week after training (EDTS or placebo) and again seven months after training. Seven months after training, the placebo group’s hazard anticipation performance was found to have improved to that observed from the EDTS-trained teens a week after training. This suggests that the EDTS program has immediate benefits to novice drivers in that it can accelerate their learning of hazard anticipation skills, skills that typically take at least six months of exposure to regular driving to develop. Overall, the EDTS-trained teens anticipated a greater proportion of hazards compared to the placebo group in the near term and far-term, though the far term differences were modest and not statistically significant. The study also examined the impact of driving exposure (miles driven) in the period following training on teen drivers’ hazard anticipation skills and found only a mild, direct correlation between driving exposure and growth in hazard anticipation skills within both the EDTS and placebo groups.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB30 Standing Committee on Operator Education and Regulation.
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Authors:
- Zafian, Tracy M
- Agrawal, Ravi
- Samuel, Siby
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
- Date: 2017
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 13p
- Monograph Title: TRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash causes; Distraction; Driver education; Driver performance; Hazards; Proximity detectors; Recently qualified drivers; Teenage drivers
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01628212
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 17-06712
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Mar 7 2017 10:25AM