EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE FIELD OF DRIVER TRAINING BY MEANS OF TRAINING EQUIPMENT IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

TESTS WERE CARRIED OUT WITH LEARNER DRIVERS ON FOUR DIFFERENT TYPES OF DRIVING SIMULATOR (DIAPROJECTION, DRIVING SIMULATOR WITH SHADOW PROJECTION, SIMULATOR WITH FILM PROJECTION, AND SIMULATOR WITH COMBINED PROJECTION). ALL THE DRIVERS HAD BEEN TRAINED PARTLY ON THE SIMULATOR AND PARTLY IN A CAR. FOR EACH SERIES OF TESTS THERE WAS A CONTROL GROUP CONSISTING OF DRIVERS WITH SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS TO THOSE IN THE TEST GROUP EXCEPT THAT THEY HAD ONLY HAD PRACTICAL TRAINING IN A CAR. THE RESULTS WERE AS FOLLOWS: ON THE FIRST THREE DRIVING SIMULATORS CITED, DRIVERS IN THE TEST GROUP MADE SIGNIFICANTLY LESS ERRORS THAN THOSE IN THE CONTROL GROUP. THE REACTION OF THE DRIVERS TO A SUDDEN EMERGENCY WAS TESTED ON THE FOURTH SIMULATOR. THERE WAS A DISTINCT DIFFERENCE IN MOTORIC REACTION IN FAVOR OF THE TEST GROUP. /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Z. F. Verk-recht /Austria

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• Authors:
  • Hoskovel, J
  • Pour, J
  • Stikar, J
• Publication Date: 1972

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: p. 183-90
• Serial:
  • Volume: 72
  • Issue Number: 6

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Driver training; Drivers; Driving simulators; Reaction time
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver reaction
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00222456
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 14 1973 12:00AM