Statistical analysis of looked-but-failed-to-see accidents: highlighting the involvement of two distinct mechanisms
KOUSTANAI ; BOLOIX ; VAN ELSLANDE ; BASTIEN
Type de document
ARTICLE A COMITE DE LECTURE REPERTORIE DANS BDI (ACL)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
KOUSTANAI ; BOLOIX ; VAN ELSLANDE ; BASTIEN
Résumé / Abstract
Circumstances where looked-but-failed-to-see accidents arise are a particular subject of study. In order to better understand why normal drivers could miss a relevant event signaling danger, more than 500 accidents were analyzed in-depth with regard to driver-environment-goal interactions. Results show four typical situations that imply two distinct mechanisms. When a failure arose at the perceptual stage, drivers actually never saw the danger while they were going straight at a junction or turning left to park their car. When failure arose at the processing stage, there was evidence that drivers saw the danger even when their recall of it was lacking. In fact, drivers saw the danger too late to avoid collision when they were overtaking another road user or looking in a particular direction. These are called looked-but-failed-to-see-accidents. Accident patterns are discussed according to drivers' goal involvement and local setting to suggest directions for further investigation with a special emphasis on change blindness. Perceptual failure; Processing failure; Drivers' goal; Environmental setting
Source
Accident Analysis and Prevention, num. vol40,n2, p461-469 p.
Editeur
Elsevier
