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Hazard anticipation of young novice drivers - SWOV

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to overt latent hazards are also in support <strong>of</strong> hypotheses 1 and 2 in Section<br />

4.1.8 that cognitive aspects <strong>of</strong> hazard <strong>anticipation</strong> improve with increasing<br />

experience and not with age. As mentioned before, the groups did not differ<br />

in the percentages <strong>of</strong> fixated overt latent hazards. However, they did differ<br />

significantly in percentages <strong>of</strong> mentioned overt latent hazards. As already<br />

indicated, a fixated overt latent not necessarily implies that this latent hazard<br />

is recognized. In contrast, a mentioned overt latent hazard is always<br />

recognized. This could explain the different results between the groups in<br />

fixated overt latent hazards and mentioned overt latent hazards.<br />

In each group, the percentage <strong>of</strong> the mentioned overt latent hazards was<br />

higher than the percentage <strong>of</strong> the mentioned covert latent hazards. For<br />

<strong>young</strong> <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> and older <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> this difference was significant,<br />

respectively: t (24) = 4.53, p < .001, and t (18) = 2.04, p < .05. The difference<br />

between mentioned covert latent hazards and mentioned overt latent<br />

hazards was not significant for experienced <strong>drivers</strong>, t (30) = 1.83, p = .08.<br />

These results are in support <strong>of</strong> hypothesis 4 and 5 in Section 4.1.8 that<br />

inexperienced <strong>drivers</strong> have more problems with detecting and recognizing<br />

covert latent hazards than overt latent hazards, but that for experienced<br />

<strong>drivers</strong> there is no difference.<br />

Fixated latent hazards and mentioned latent hazards<br />

Table 4.3 shows the relationship between fixations (at least one fixation <strong>of</strong> at<br />

least 200 ms on the designated area within the timeframe <strong>of</strong> each latent<br />

hazard) and mentioned latent hazards.<br />

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