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Hazard anticipation of young novice drivers - SWOV

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efore the video halted and the screen turned black. The very fact that the<br />

video stopped at that particular moment may help the participant realize that<br />

there could have been a hazard (McGowan & Banbury, 2004), even when the<br />

screen has turned black. A disadvantage <strong>of</strong> asking participants what could<br />

have happened that did not happen at the end <strong>of</strong> a video clip, the method<br />

applied in the present study, is that participants may have forgotten the<br />

latent hazard, even when a video clip lasts no longer than 40 s.<br />

A limitation <strong>of</strong> the study presented in this chapter is that the samples <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>young</strong> <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> and older <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> may be biased. Age may be<br />

not the only difference between the two groups. It is practically impossible to<br />

assign participants randomly to a group by telling one participant you do the<br />

driving test now and to the other participant you do the driving test over<br />

seven years. There may be motives for the choice to start driving early in life<br />

or to start driving late in live that affect hazard <strong>anticipation</strong>.<br />

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