Driving Behavior and Skills

Lajunen, Timo; Özkan, Türker

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“…In light of the potential benefits of automated vehicles ( 3 , 4 ) and relationships between the varying micro- and macro-level variables and road users’ attitudes and perceptions of different levels of vehicle automation ( 5 , 23 ), it is expected that understanding the relationships between individual and country-level factors and the acceptance of automated systems will have a crucial role in the future of vehicle automation and road safety. Despite the significance of driver skills (i.e., Lajunen and Özkan [ 20 ]) and traffic climate (Gehlert et al [ 28 ], Öztürk et al [ 29 ], Chu et al [ 30 ], and Üzümcüoğlu et al [ 31 ]) for various driving outcomes and road safety, to the best of our knowledge, there has been no research on driver skills and a limited amount of research into traffic climate (i.e., Qu et al [ 8 ]) in relation to the acceptance of vehicle automation. With respect to that, the present study examines the relationships between macro/country-level (country difference and traffic climate) and micro/individual-level (driver skills) variables on the one hand, and the preferred level of vehicle automation on the other.…”

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“…Driver skills were associated with various driving outcomes such as speeding behaviors ( 16 ), aberrant and positive driver behaviors ( 17 , 18 ), and accidents ( 19 ). The Driver Skills Inventory is a widely used reliable and valid measurement of driver skills under two dimensions: perceptual-motor skills and safety skills ( 20 ). While perceptual-motor skills focus on technical or performance aspects of driving such as “managing the car through a skid,” safety skills are more related to the drivers’ safety motives or orientation such as “avoiding unnecessary risks” ( 20 , 21 ).…”

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“…The Driver Skills Inventory is a widely used reliable and valid measurement of driver skills under two dimensions: perceptual-motor skills and safety skills ( 20 ). While perceptual-motor skills focus on technical or performance aspects of driving such as “managing the car through a skid,” safety skills are more related to the drivers’ safety motives or orientation such as “avoiding unnecessary risks” ( 20 , 21 ). In that respect, Sümer et al ( 22 ) proposed a general asymmetric relationship between perceptual-motor skills and safety skills with unsafe driving outcomes.…”

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Automation Preferences by Traffic Climate and Driver Skills in Two Samples From Countries with Different Levels of Traffic Safety

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Warner

Özkan

2022

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Automated systems present great capabilities with a wide range of options. In this respect, vehicle preferences and factors affecting these preferences are important for the future of automated systems. While automated systems offer varied features and improvements for drivers and general traffic safety, the relationship between drivers’ perceptions of traffic systems and driver skills have not been studied. The present study, therefore, focuses on country differences and the relationships between traffic climate and driver skills and their impact on the preferred level of vehicle automation for drivers in Turkey and Sweden. The study was conducted with 318 drivers (age: mean [M] = 22.41, standard deviation [SD] = 2.77) from Turkey and 312 drivers (age: M = 28.80, SD = 8.53) from Sweden in 2020. A questionnaire package asking for demographic information and preferred levels of vehicle automation—Traffic Climate Scale (TCS) and the Driver Skill Inventory (DSI)—was completed. A series of analyses of covariance (ANCOVA), hierarchical regression, and moderated moderation analyses were conducted. Drivers from Turkey preferred higher automation levels than drivers from Sweden. Drivers with higher perceived safety skills, with lower perceived perceptual-motor skills or perceiving the traffic system as more externally demanding preferred higher automation levels. Drivers’ automation preferences were affected by various individual and country-level factors. For the first time, drivers’ automation preferences were elaborated in relation to traffic climate and driver skills in two countries with different levels of traffic safety. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed in the light of the literature.

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Automation Preferences by Traffic Climate and Driver Skills in Two Samples From Countries with Different Levels of Traffic Safety

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2022

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“…A review of earlier studies using the DBQ shows that the DBQ violations and errors correlate moderately with self-reported traffic accidents ( de Winter et al, 2015 ). In addition, especially the DSI safety skills dimension has been reported to be related to risky driving and negative outcomes ( Xu et al, 2018 ; Üzümcüoğlu et al, 2020 ; Lajunen and Özkan, 2021 ).…”

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Born to Be a Risky Driver? The Relationship Between Cloninger’s Temperament and Character Traits and Risky Driving

Lajunen

Gaygısız

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Temperament refers to basic, largely inherited, relatively stable personality traits which have been present since early childhood. Considering the very fundamental role of temperament in human development and behaviour, it is reasonable to assume that temperament is also related to risky driving and drivers’ view of themselves as drivers. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationships between Cloninger’s temperament dimensions, risky driving and drivers’ view of their perceptual motor and safety skills. The sample consisted of 335 Turkish drivers (aged 19–57; 53.7% men) who completed an Internet-based survey including Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), Driver Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ) and Driver Skill Inventory (DSI). Correlation analyses showed that TCI scale Cooperativeness correlated negatively with all DBQ scales indicating risky driving and positively with safety skills. In regression analyses after controlling age, gender and lifetime mileage, cooperativeness still was significantly related to all DBQ scales and safety skills. Persistence correlated negatively with ordinary violations, lapses and errors and positively with perceptual motor skills. In regression analyses, persistence was related to errors and lapses. Reward dependence was positively related to lapses and harm avoidance negatively to perceptual motor skills. The results of the present study indicate that largely innate temperament character traits may influence an individual’s predisposition to risky driving. Future studies about temperament and risky driving with larger samples allowing sub-group analyses are needed.

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“…Therefore, we can say that "the DSI is not an objective measure of driver skills, but rather an instrument for investigating a driver's view of his or her skills" (Lajunen & Özkan, 2021).…”

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Driver social desirability scale: A Turkish adaptation and examination in the driving context

Yılmaz

Arslan

Öztürk

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Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviou

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Driving Behavior and Skills

Cited by 10 publications

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Automation Preferences by Traffic Climate and Driver Skills in Two Samples From Countries with Different Levels of Traffic Safety

Automation Preferences by Traffic Climate and Driver Skills in Two Samples From Countries with Different Levels of Traffic Safety

Born to Be a Risky Driver? The Relationship Between Cloninger’s Temperament and Character Traits and Risky Driving

Driver social desirability scale: A Turkish adaptation and examination in the driving context

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