Typical night vehicle meeting engagements on unlighted two-three, and four-lane highways were simulated. Vision tasks for subject drivers were provided utilizing common highway visual objects as targets. Various vehicle headlights systems including standard low and high beam, high-intensity and polarized lamps were studied under varied conditions of vehicle speed and separation distances between opposing single and multiple vehicles with respect to the vision targets with drivers having varied glare adaption response. Measurements were made of detection distance capabilities of the observers and their steering response to targets and oncoming glare vehicles. (Author)
The Effect of Headlight Glare on Vehicle Control and Detection of Highway Vision Targets
1968
124 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Road Transportation , Heating & Cooling Systems , Personnel Management, Labor Relations & Manpower , Stress Physiology , Passenger vehicles , Incandescent lamps , Operators(Personnel) , Stress(Physiology) , Visibility , Safety , Roads , Responses(Physiology) , Windshields , Polarization , Velocity , Vision , Experimental data , Motor vehicle operators , Ranges(Distance) , Headlamps , Glare