DRIVER EYE POSITION AND CONTROL REACH ANTHROPOMETRICS. VOL 2. DYNAMIC EYE POSITION STUDY. FINAL REPORT

CYCLOPEAN EYE POSITION OF DRIVERS WERE MEASURED RELATIVE TO VEHICLE REFERENCE POINTS DURING NORMAL DRIVING ACTIVITIES IN LATE MODEL VEHICLES. THE MEASURES WERE RELATED TO EYE POSITION MEASURES MADE IN STATIC SITUATIONS IN THE SAME VEHICLES AND IN LABORATORY STUDIES EMPLOYING VEHICLE MOCK- UPS. FINDINGS INDICATE THAT DRIVERS EXHIBIT SUBSTANTIAL HEAD TILT NOT OBSERVED IN STATIC SITUATIONS; THAT SHOULD BELTS RESTRICT EYE POSITION EXCURSIONS; THAT A LARGE FIELD OF VIEW PERISCOPIC-TYPE MIRROR VIRTUALLY ELIMINATES EYE POSITION SHIFTS AND SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCES VARIABILITY IN EYE POSITION DURING FREEWAY LANE CHANGES AND MERGES; THAT COMBINING WITHIN-DRIVER EYE POSITION VARIABILITY AND BETWEEN DRIVER VARIABILITY RESULTS IN EYELLIPSES WHICH ARE ENLARGED SUBSTANTIALLY ONLY IN THE LATERAL DIMENSION; AND THAT THERE IS NO CONSISTENT CHANGE IN DYNAMIC EYE POSITION OVER EXTENDED DRIVING OR IN DIFFERENT DRIVING ENVIRONMENTS. /HSL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • REPORT NO. MFI-71-117
• Corporate Authors:

  Man Factors, Inc

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• Authors:
  • Woodson, W E
• Publication Date: 1971

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 125 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Anthropometry; Control; Design; Drivers; Eye; Field of vision; Motor vehicles; Task analysis; Vehicle design
• Uncontrolled Terms: Field of view
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221754
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Literature
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 24 1972 12:00AM