Drivers’ recovery performance in a critical run-off-road scenario : A driving simulator study

• Single vehicle accidents are commonly caused by fatigue and distraction and resulting in severe casualties and high economic costs. In order to evaluate driver recovery from run-off-road accidents, comprising of 80% of fatal crashes on rural roads, a simulator study in an advanced full-motion driving simulator was carried out. Drivers were given a secondary task to perform at six positions down the road (to simulate distraction), and an artificial yaw deviation was added to the vehicle to induce a run-off-road accident whilst the driver was distracted. The results show that the severity of the recovery manoeuvre was larger than similar events caused by the failure of automated lane keeping systems, leading to lane departures. Furthermore, significant learning effects was found, providing recommendations for further studies into run-off-road experiments.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Farkostteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Vehicle Engineering (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Psykologi -- Tillämpad psykologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Psychology -- Applied Psychology (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Single vehicle accident

Driving (veh)

Driver

Behaviour

Simulator (driving)

Steering (process)

Reaction (human)

841 Road: Road user behaviour

841 Road: Road user behaviour

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

kon (subject category)