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Driving performance impairments due to hypovigilance on monotonous roads
Accident Analysis & Prevention, Vol.43(6), pp.2037-2046
2011
PMID: 21819833
Abstract
Drivers' ability to react to unpredictable events deteriorates when exposed to highly predictable and uneventful driving tasks. Highway design reduces the driving task mainly to a lane-keeping manoeuvre. Such a task is monotonous, providing little stimulation and this contributes to crashes due to inattention. Research has shown that driver's hypovigilance can be assessed with EEG measurements and that driving performance is impaired during prolonged monotonous driving tasks. This paper aims to show that two dimensions of monotony - namely road design and road side variability - decrease vigilance and impair driving performance. This is the first study correlating hypovigilance and driver performance in varied monotonous conditions, particularly on a short time scale (a few seconds). We induced vigilance decrement as assessed with an EEG during a monotonous driving simulator experiment. Road monotony was varied through both road design and road side variability. The driver's decrease in vigilance occurred due to both road design and road scenery monotony and almost independently of the driver's sensation seeking level. Such impairment was also correlated to observable measurements from the driver, the car and the environment. During periods of hypovigilance, the driving performance impairment affected lane positioning, time to lane crossing, blink frequency, heart rate variability and non-specific electrodermal response rates. This work lays the foundation for the development of an in-vehicle device preventing hypovigilance crashes on monotonous roads. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Details
- Title
- Driving performance impairments due to hypovigilance on monotonous roads
- Authors
- Gregoire S. Larue (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyAndry Rakotonirainy (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyAnthony N. Pettitt (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Publication details
- Accident Analysis & Prevention, Vol.43(6), pp.2037-2046
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Date published
- 2011
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.aap.2011.05.023
- ISSN
- 1879-2057; 0001-4575
- PMID
- 21819833
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2011. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Organisation Unit
- Road Safety Research Collaboration; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99648951102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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