Driving with Para-Central Visual Field Loss: Pilot Study
The authors studied how para-central visual field loss affects pedestrian detection in a driving simulator. Participants with para-central field loss had relatively good visual acuity (20/15 – 20/60) and 3 of 5 met local vision requirements for an unrestricted drivers license; however, they had lower detection rates and longer reaction times to pedestrians likely to appear within the blind area than in their seeing areas. They were at collision risk for 7% to 30% of pedestrians, whereas controls were at a collision risk for 0 to 4% of pedestrians.
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Corporate Authors:
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Public Policy Center
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Authors:
- Bronstad, Matt
- Bowers, Alex
- Albu, Amanda
- Goldstein, Robert
- Peli, Eli
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Conference:
- Driving Assessment 2011: 6th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design
- Location: Olympic Valley - Lake Tahoe CA
- Date: 2011-6-27 to 2011-6-30
- Publication Date: 2011
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: CD-ROM
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 165-171
- Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 6th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design, Resort at Squaw Creek, Olympic Valley - Lake Tahoe, California, USA, June 27-30, 2011
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Highway safety; Risk analysis; Traffic crashes; Vision; Vision disorders
- Uncontrolled Terms: Visual field
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01349782
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jul 26 2011 12:44PM