Cognitive Failures, Driving Errors and Driving Accidents

Abstract

Although the CFQ was not able to predict driving accidents, it could be used to identify drivers susceptible to driving errors. Further development of a driving-oriented cognitive failure scale is recommended to help identify error prone drivers. Such a scale may be beneficial to licensing authorities or for developing driver selection and training procedures for organizations.

Occupational Cognitive Failure and Its Relationship With Unsafe Behaviors and Accidents

“…Reason, Manstead, Stradling, et al also showed a minimum 3-fold lower unsafe driving behavior frequencies [5], but they used a different version of the DBQ questionnare with different subscale that might make comparing the results difficult. In the present study, the mean OCF score was 28.9 and was similar to Allahyari, Saraji, Adl, et al's findings, which showed that the mean score of the CFQ was 27.9 [14]. The mean OCF score in the present study is lower than the mean cognitive failure reported by Wallace and Vodanovich [12], who measured the cognitive failure in relation to driving accidents (the mean score was 43.4) and Matthews, Coyle and Craig [25], who measured the cognitive error in relation to stress (the mean score was 45.0), but greater than the mean cognitive failure score reported by Larson, Alderton, Neideffer, et al [9].…”

“…This finding is in step with Allahyari et al, who showed a significant correlation between the CFQ score and driving error rates measured with the driver error questionnaire [14]. Allahyari et al also concluded that the CFQ score was a significant predictor of driving errors [14].…”

“…This finding is in step with Allahyari et al, who showed a significant correlation between the CFQ score and driving error rates measured with the driver error questionnaire [14]. Allahyari et al also concluded that the CFQ score was a significant predictor of driving errors [14]. Winter and Dodou meta-analysis reported that there was a positive correlation between self-reported accidents and errors in 32 of the sampled studies and violations in 42 of the sampled studies.…”

“…According to their results, the DBQ predicts individual differences in accident involvement; however, this cannot be proved because the results in different studies are heterogeneous [6]. The DBQ defines errors as consisting actions that are not planned, violations as deliberate deviations from safe driving behaviours (e.g., speed) [19], slips as errors of execution and lapses as errors of storage [14]. However, slips and lapses are not considered to affect overall road safety [19].…”

“…The knowledge of professional driving behavior is scarce [13] and although drivers are more exposed to accidents [14], relatively little research has been done to examine the driving behaviors [13]. Studies investigating driving behaviors and their associated factors among public vehicle drivers in Iran are scarce [14,15].…”