RISK AWARENESS ANALYSIS : A COMPARISON BETWEEN CAR DRIVERS AND MOTORCYCLISTS

The general framework of this research is about risk awareness through the aspect of cognitive abilities to perceive and assess the criticality of the driving situation among motorcyclists versus car drivers. In order to study risk awareness, we have developed some tools based on video films. The experimental task consists in assessing the criticality of dynamic driving situations, via a Likert scale, and qualifying these situations using Osgood’s semantic differential. The results show that riders globally consider our sample of driving situations as less critical than car drivers do. This paper presents the main differences observed between the two populations.