Improving car drivers' perception of motorcyclists through innovative headlight configurations
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Accident studies emphasise the high frequency of perceptual errors made by car drivers when colliding with motorcycles (in 60 or 70% of these accidents, according to Van Elslande & Jaffard, 2010, and Hurt et al., 1981, respectively). The errors are identified as non (or late) detections of the motorcycle on the one hand (e.g., Cavallo & Pinto, 2012), and as a misperceptions of the motorcycle's speed, distance (Tsutsumi & Maruyama, 2008; Gould, Poulter, Helman, & Wann, 2012), and time-to-arrival (Horswill, Helman, Ardiles, & Wann, 2005) on the other hand. Whereas detection problems in relation to motorcycle conspicuity have already been extensively studied, only very few investigations have addressed the second type of failures in relation to the perception of the motorcycle’s motion. The present study was specifically dedicated to the latter question.
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