DRIVERS' VISUAL BEHAVIOR AS AFFECTED BY STOPPING MANEUVER --VEHICLE HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE: SAFETY COMPATIBILITY. PROCEEDINGS OF AN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS AND EXPOSITION, FEBRURAY 23-27, 1987, DETROIT, MICHIGAN

This study investigates the visual behaviour of novice and experienced drivers with three tasks when the stop line disappears from a driver's view before he/she performs a stopping manoeuver. The tasks were stopping right in front of the stop line, (a) after travelling in a straight line, (b) after pulling over to the left line, and (c) after pulling over to the right line. The results showed that the range of horizontal fixation locations for the experienced drivers was wider than that for the novice drivers and that the experienced drivers looked closer in front of the car than the novice drivers. These results suggest that the strategies of visual search for the novice drivers were critically concerned with the vehicle's direction of travel under the conditions of high driving tasks.(a) for the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 813089.