Forensic Aspects of Driver Perception and Response (Hardcover)

by Paul L. Olson (Author)

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Product Description
A significant advance over the previous edition, this title contains new information you need to know about driver perception and response.

While the basic subject matter--driver perception and perception-response time--remains the same, chapters have been added that cover in greater depth material that was briefly mention in the first edition. Additional chapters present completely new material on the topics of driver eye movements and visual attention.

Driver Perception and Response pulls together the available information on two primary themes: what a driver could (or should) have seen and how long he or she takes to respond in an emergency situation.

TOPICS INCLUDE

• Applicability of human factors
• General principles of vision and perception
• Visibility with motor vehicle headlamps and with streetlighting
• Night photography
• Methods of evaluation
• Basic perception-response situations and complicating factors.
• Evaluation of visibility in the field
• Factors that degrade visual performance under night driving conditions
• Fundamentals of vision in driving
• Human variability
• Visibility when driving at night
• Perception-response time in non-standard situations
• Problems in the use of nighttime photography as evidence in litigation
• Visibility with fixed lighting

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author
Eugene Farber has been working in the area of traffic safety, driver behavior and human factors since 1965. In January 1999 he retired from the Ford Motor Company after a career of twenty-eight years and is now providing forensic consulting services in traffic accident cases. At retirement he held a dual appointment in Ford's Vehicle Safety Research Department and the Automotive Safety Office. His most recent project at Ford was a study of the visual workload of drivers using advanced car navigation systems. He also participated in the Ford/GM/NHTSA Cooperative Research Program on Front Obstacle Warning Systems. Earlier he was with the Safety Research Department at Ford where he directed human factors and crash avoidance research in such areas as driver vision, direct and indirect fields of view, lighting, vehicle control and collision-countermeasure modeling. Until recently he chaired the SAE Safety and Human Factors Committee and was active in international standards activities. Before coming to Ford, Mr. Farber was at the Franklin Institute Research Laboratories where he conducted studies for the Federal Highway Administration on various topics, including highway lighting systems, pavement friction requirements, and driver judgment and decision-making in passing maneuvers on two-lane highways. He is the author of over sixty research publications and presentations in automotive human factors and traffic safety.

Paul L. Olson, Ph.D., has enjoyed a long career in human factors since receiving his Ph.D. in industrial psychology from Purdue University in 1959. He is a fellow of both the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the American Psychological Association. He is also a recipient of the A.R. Lauer Traffic Safety Award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the Ralph H. Isbrandt Automotive Safety Engineering Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 220 pages
• Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers Inc (June 6, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0913875228
• ISBN-13: 978-0913875223
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