Estimating Driver Response Times

The objective of this chapter is to address driver response time and the factors that influence it. Previous research has reported driver response times from 0.5 to 10 seconds for various tasks. The chapter offers reasons for different response time results. The author found in previous research that different results can be explained and quantified by methodology and substantive variables. Therefore, a mean response time for various tasks can be estimated. The precision of such estimates are also addressed in the chapter.

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