Highlights We created a 6-week video-based online hazard perception training course for drivers. The course incorporated evidence-based training methods and >100 real crash videos. Trainees’ scores improved on validated hazard perception and hazard prediction tests. The course led to safer vehicle following distance preferences in a video-based test. All trainees reported improvements in their on-road driving safety after training.

    Abstract A key goal of driver training is to teach drivers to avoid crashes. However, in traditional driver training, drivers are unlikely to see even a single example of the class of event that we want them to learn to avoid. We developed a six-session automated online hazard perception training course for drivers, which incorporates a range of evidence-based strategies and employs extensive video footage of real crashes. We evaluated this course in a randomized control trial by examining its effects on previously-validated computer-based measures of hazard perception, hazard prediction, speed choice, following distance, and gap acceptance propensity, as well as self-rated measures of driver skill, safety, and real world transfer. We found that the course resulted in significant improvements in hazard perception response time and hazard prediction scores, and significantly longer vehicle following distances. Additionally, all participants in the trained group reported that their real world driving behaviour had improved. No significant training effects were found for the other measures. The results suggest that the course can improve key behaviours associated with crash risk.


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    Titel :

    A thousand years of crash experience in three hours: An online hazard perception training course for drivers


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2020-12-26




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch