DRIVER PREFERENCES FOR INSTRUMENT PANEL LIGHTING LEVELS

The report identifies driver preferences for instrument cluster luminance/contrast levels. Thirty drivers (10 young Americans, 10 older Americans, and 10 Japanese) participated. Judgements (minimum, preferred, maximum, and dazzling) were obtained at nine sites along a 17-mile route in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Each driver provided judgements for 5 test conditions (daytime-elecronic cluster, with and without sunglasses; nighttime--electronic, green analog, and white analog clusters). Differences were found between young (64:1) and older (70:1) Americans, but not between American men and wommen or American and Japanese drivers. Prediction equations developed for contrast explain at least 84% of the variability for the preferred, maximum, and dazzling judgments.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

  2901 Baxter Road
  Ann Arbor, MI  United States  48109-2150
• Authors:
  • Serafin, C
  • Green, P
• Publication Date: 1990-3

Media Info

• Pagination: 111 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adolescents; Age; Aged drivers; Cluster analysis; Days; Drivers; Driving; Human machine systems; Instrument panels; Lighting; Luminosity factor; Night; Perception; Reaction time; Sunglasses; Teenage drivers; Vision
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver age; Driver reaction
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Old TRIS Terms: Analog; Driver perception; Driver vision; Driver/vehicle interaction; Luminosity
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00610729
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTRI-90-5
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 30 1991 12:00AM