AN EXPERIMENT TO DETERMINE RELATIVE PERFORMANCE OF BOAT OPERATORS IN EMERGENCY MANEUVERS USING HAND AND FOOT THROTTLES

Obstacle avoidance in emergency situations is dependent on a boat driver's ability to respond to the situation in a safe manner. What is safe quite often depends on responses taken by the driver. This report describes the investigation undertaken into the driver responses to a simulated emergency situation. The particular scope is interdependences of maximum roll angle change and initial roll angle changes, initial yaw angle change, success/failure rate, initial rate of motor angle change, and time for maximum roll change with the type of throttle control used.

• Corporate Authors:

  Wyle Laboratories

  Eastern Operations
  Huntsville, AL  United States 

  United States Coast Guard

  2100 Second Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20593
• Publication Date: 1974-12

Media Info

• Pagination: 127 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Angularity; Boats; Control; Crash avoidance systems; Emergencies; Foot; Navigation; Performance tests; Personnel performance; Reaction time; Rolling; Safety; Simulation; Throttles; Yaw
• Candidate Terms: Handheld devices
• Uncontrolled Terms: Angles; Interaction
• Old TRIS Terms: Control simulators; Feet; Performance human; Response; Roll; Throttling
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00092262
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Tech. Brief-74-13 Final Rpt., USCG-D-138-75
• Contract Numbers: DOT-CG-40672-A
• Files: NTIS
• Created Date: Nov 5 1976 12:00AM