CHOICE REACTION TIME AND LOCATION OF VEHICLE CONTROLS

The reaction time of 24 nondriver Ss was measured to six controls in each of two cars, one with an "American" style layout, the other with a "European" style layout. Ss uniformly reached for and touched the controls in the European style car faster, a finding which has implications for the design and layout of motor-vehicle controls. Implications of the further finding that reactions to immediately repeated stimuli were uniformly faster are also mentioned.

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  Ammons (CH) and Ammons (RR)

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• Authors:
  • Faust-Adams, A S
  • Nagel, R J
• Publication Date: 1975-2

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 183-186
• Serial:
  • Perceptual and Motor Skills
  • Volume: 40
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Ammons Scientific
  • ISSN: 0031-5125
  • EISSN: 1558-688X
  • Serial URL: http://www.amsciepub.com/loi/pms

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated vehicle control; Automobiles by type; Drivers; Reaction time; Vehicle design
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver reaction; Vehicle make
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00097133
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Research Institute
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 1975 12:00AM