Title
Effects of vehicle handling characteristics on driving strategy
Author
Godthelp, J.
Käppler, W.D.
Instituut voor Zintuigfysiologie TNO
Publication year
1988
Abstract
The time-to-line-crossing (TLC) concept has been used as a time-related measure to describe driving strategy. The purpose of this research is to analyze whether TLC might enlarge our understanding of the relationship between vehicle handling characteristics and a driver's looking and lateral control strategy in a straight-lane-keeping task. Earlier results indicated that in the case of a normally understeering car, drivers accept occlusion periods that correlate highly with TLC. The present study shows that drivers are well able to maintain this strategy with a more heavily understeering vehicle. However, the adaptation to the characteristics of an oversteering vehicle is far less accurate. Although drivers devote considerable steering and looking effort to control such a vehicle, it appears that this compensation process is insufficient and results in very low TLC levels at high speeds.
Subject
adult
car driving
clinical article
controlled study
human
human experiment
male
normal human
traffic safety
visual field
traffic
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TNO identifier
6595
Source
Human Factors, 30 (2), 219-229
Document type
article