Hazard anticipation of young novice drivers - SWOV
Hazard anticipation of young novice drivers - SWOV
Hazard anticipation of young novice drivers - SWOV
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task'. Three groups made the two tasks: learner <strong>drivers</strong> on the day they had<br />
passed the driving test, <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> that hold their driving licence for<br />
eighteen months and experienced <strong>drivers</strong>. With regard to the video task,<br />
there were no significant differences between the three groups in clicks on<br />
latent hazards (both on covert latent hazards and on overt latent hazards).<br />
This is remarkable because there was a significant difference with a large<br />
effect size in mentioned latent hazards between learner and experienced<br />
<strong>drivers</strong> in the hazard detection and recognition task <strong>of</strong> Chapter 4. There was<br />
no significant difference on the video task between <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> that had<br />
reported at least one crash and crash free <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> either.<br />
With regard to the photo task, there was a significant difference<br />
between learner <strong>drivers</strong> and <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> and between learner <strong>drivers</strong> and<br />
experienced <strong>drivers</strong> with the learner <strong>drivers</strong> having the highest risk scores.<br />
There was no significant difference in risk scores between <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> and<br />
experienced <strong>drivers</strong>. The magnitude <strong>of</strong> the difference between learner <strong>drivers</strong><br />
and experienced <strong>drivers</strong> was relatively small and was about the same as<br />
between learner <strong>drivers</strong> and experienced <strong>drivers</strong> in the risk assessment and<br />
action selection task <strong>of</strong> Chapter 4. Controlled for exposure (defined as<br />
number times use was made <strong>of</strong> a car per week) <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> that had<br />
reported at least one crash had significantly higher risk score than crash free<br />
<strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong>. Both the lower risk scores for the crash free <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong><br />
and the higher risk scores for learner <strong>drivers</strong> compared to the risk scores <strong>of</strong><br />
experienced <strong>drivers</strong> are indications that the photo task has criterion validity.<br />
The fact that the video task failed to discriminate between learner<br />
<strong>drivers</strong> and <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> on one hand and experienced <strong>drivers</strong> on the other<br />
hand could and also failed to discriminate between <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> who had<br />
reported a crash and crash free <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong>, could have had various<br />
causes. Firstly, the animated video clips were far from perfect, the task was<br />
rather complex and participants could hardly familiarize. Secondly, it could<br />
be that clicking with a mouse was more <strong>of</strong> an effort for older <strong>drivers</strong> than for<br />
<strong>young</strong> <strong>drivers</strong>, as older <strong>drivers</strong> in general are not familiar with computer<br />
games. Thirdly, the pauses that were necessary to allow for sufficient time to<br />
point and click could have enabled learner <strong>drivers</strong> and <strong>novice</strong> <strong>drivers</strong> to<br />
detect latent hazards they had not yet detected while the video was running.<br />
The very fact that the video clip paused could have triggered participants<br />
that there could be latent hazards and the pause itself <strong>of</strong>fered the time to<br />
detect and recognize these possible latent hazards. A new video task was<br />
developed. In this video task the latent hazards were less ambiguous, the<br />
quality <strong>of</strong> the videos was better and the videos were presented on a larger<br />
screen. The task was simplified and an introduction video clip was made to<br />
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