The use of night vision devices (NVDs) by US Army foot soldiers, aviator,s and drivers of combat and tactical wheeled vehicles has enhanced operations at night by allowing increased mobility and potentially safer operations. With this increased capability in the night environment has come an increased exposure to the hazards of that environment and the risks that the command structure must manage and balance with mission requirements. Numerous vehicular accidents have occurred during night filed exercises involving drivers wearing image intensification (I2) systems. These accidents can frequently be attributed to perceptual problems experienced by the drivers. Performance with NVDs generally increases with practice and experience. However, there is little formal training provided in night driving skills and few opportunities to practice these skills under realistic conditions. This paper reports the approach and preliminary result of an effort to define and demonstrate a low-cost night driving simulator concept for training night driving skills with I2 devices and to identify and evaluate the techniques and resources that are available for implementing this approach.


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    Title :

    Development of a night-driving simulator concept for night vision image-intensification device training


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 1997 ; 1997 ; Orlando,FL,USA


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1997-06-26





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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