ESTIMATION OF AUTOMOBILE SPEED UNDER DAY AND NIGHT CONDITIONS

Passenger subjects estimated automobile speed while traveling along an unlit freeway under day and night conditions. A visual occluding device allowed a 1-s glimpse of the road ahead when a judgment was required. Although subjects underestimated speeds, their judgments were more accurate at night than during the day.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Human Factors Society

  Johns Hopkins University Press
  Baltimore, MD  United States  21218
• Authors:
  • Triggs, T J
  • Berenyi, J S
• Publication Date: 1982-2

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 111-114
• Serial:
  • Human Factors
  • Volume: 24
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0018-7208
  • EISSN: 1547-8181
  • Serial URL: http://hfs.sagepub.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Ability tests; Accuracy; Automobile drivers; Automobiles; Days; Driving; Estimating; Human factors engineering; Human factors engineering; Judgment (Human characteristics); Motor vehicles; Night; Periods of the day; Psychological tests; Speed; Traffic speed
• Uncontrolled Terms: Daytime driving
• Old TRIS Terms: Automobile speed estimation; Nightime driving; Subjective tests
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00367437
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Dec 30 1982 12:00AM