The traffic safety of the Carin car information and navigation system II: Distraction by in-car visual route guiding pictogrammes

The traffic safety of the Carin car information and navigation system II: Distraction by in-car visual route guiding pictogrammes

Blikman, G.

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Transport & Planning

1988-04-01

Report of the Delft University of Technology, Department of Transportation Planning and Highway Engineering in assignment of Philips International B.V. The in-car presentation of route guiding advices may distract a driver from his tasks to keep course and to account for the other traffic and the traffic environment. A distraction by route guiding pictogrammes from the task to keep course can be avoided by selecting pictogrammes that require a shorter interpretation time than the available time period between two successive course corrections. In a laboratory study on the distraction from the task to account for the other traffic, it was found that deteriorations mainly occurred in incident situations. The deteriorations are largest for stimuli from a location right in front of the car, especially for elder drivers. Under circumstances all pictogrammes caused deteriorations. In difficult situations complex pictogrammes cause more deteriorations than simple ones. Most sensitive to deteriorations are elderly drivers and young males when driving at high speeds.

Carin car information
navigation systems

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