Experience and Visual Attention in Driving

Newly qualified drivers are at disproportionate risk of involvement in a crash. As they gain experience, their road accident liability decrease, and this can be attributed in part to changes in the distribution of attention. As well as knowing better where to look, they are also less distracted by events that are unrelated to the task of driving. This chapter analyzes the role that processing demands in visual information acquisition play on anticipating the behavior of other road users and developing a mental model of the driving situation that will help with the process of anticipation.

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