TESTS CARRIED OUT ON DRIVING SIMULATORS. A METHOD OF ASSESSING THE DRIVING APTITUDE OF DRIVERS

DIE FAHRPROBE AM FAHRSIMULATOR - EIN VERFAHREN ZUR BEURTEILUNG DER VERKEHRSEIGNUNG VON KRAFTFAHRERN

A random check was made of 57 learner drivers who had performed driving tests on a driving simulator. It was empirically proven that the level of the psychological predisposition of drivers to behave in an indictable manner in traffic may be forecasted and determined on the basis of driving data assimilated in a standardised driving test relevant to relative significance. This proves that the simulated driving test is also suitable for making direct prognoses of this psychological predisposition. Together with the two driving variables known as "speed uniformity" and "kerb hitting" or "contact collision", the variable called "the intermittent error" proved to be the most significant factor in forecasting for approximately two thirds of all simulated tests. The possibility of further developing the simulated test into a diagnostic aid is regarded as viable. /TRRL/

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• Corporate Authors:

  Tetzlaff Verlag GmbH

  Havelstrosse 9, Postfach 4006
  D-6100 Darmstadt 1,   Germany 

  Tetzlaff Verlag GmbH

  Havelstrosse 9, Postfach 4006
  D-6100 Darmstadt 1,   Germany 
• Authors:
  • Seidemann, O
• Publication Date: 1976

Language

• German

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 28-33
• Serial:
  • Zeitschrift für Verkehrssicherheit
  • Volume: 22
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Kirschbaum Verlag
  • ISSN: 0044-3654

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aptitude; Attitudes; Behavior; Crimes; Diagnosis; Diagnostic tests; Driver performance; Driver training; Drivers; Driving; Driving simulators; Forecasting; Personnel performance; Psychological aspects; Simulation; Testing; Tests
• ITRD Terms: 2267: Attitude (psychol); 9001: Behaviour; 1772: Driver; 1855: Driving (veh); 2226: Driving aptitude; 132: Forecast; 1516: Offence; 9103: Simulation; 6255: Test
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00170320
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Analytic
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 28 1978 12:00AM