How drivers sit in cars

Parkin, S; Mackay, G M; Cooper, Ashley M.

doi:10.1016/0001-4575(95)00035-6

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“…This may have very practical implications for vehicle design. As Wallis et al (2002) point out in their paper, steering wheels are a serious aggravating factor in motor vehicle accidents (Parkin, MacKay, & Cooper, 1995;Thomas & Bradford, 1995;NHTSA, 1997) even though, or indeed sometimes because, an air-bag is installed (Segui-Gomez, Levy, & Graham, 1998;Duma, 1996;NHTSA, 1999). A recent review of accident figures indicates that ten times as many deaths are due to inappropriate deployments of steering-wheel housed airbags than passenger-side airbags.…”

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The role of visual and nonvisual feedback in a vehicle steering task.

Wallis¹,

Chatziastros²,

Tresilian³

et al. 2007

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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This article investigates vehicle steering control, focusing on the task of lane changing and the role of different sources of sensory feedback. Participants carried out 2 experiments in a fully instrumented, motion-based simulator. Despite the high level of realism afforded by the simulator, participants were unable to complete a lane change in the absence of visual feedback. When asked to produce the steering movements required to change lanes and turn a corner, participants produced remarkably similar behavior in each case, revealing a misconception of how a lane-change maneuver is normally executed. Finally, participants were asked to change lanes in a fixed-based simulator, in the presence of intermittent visual information. Normal steering behavior could be restored using brief but suitably timed exposure to visual information. The data suggest that vehicle steering control can be characterized as a series of unidirectional, open-loop steering movements, each punctuated by a brief visual update.

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Section: Implications For Applied Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of visual and nonvisual feedback in a vehicle steering task.

Wallis¹,

Chatziastros²,

Tresilian³

et al. 2007

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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“…When drivers are in a vehicle, variations in posture between different sexes and age groups can be observed. (Parkin et al, 1995) On this basis, recent work recognises whilst the analytical approach has applications, it is not the most accurate model to validate driver eye height in the traffic engineering context (Todd et al, 2017).…”

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Naturalistic measurement of driver eye height and object height using photogrammetry

Llewellyn

Sarkar

Taylor

2021

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Transport

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Driver eye height and object height are key factors in the derivation of basic parameters for safe and economically efficient highway design. This study critically reviews previous approaches to the measurement of these values and investigates the changes in them over time. Previous methods of measurement were found to have considerable limitations in terms of coverage or accuracy. A new approach is developed for the naturalistic recording of a sample of vehicles using the principles of photogrammetry, the first time this approach has been used for all vehicle types. A field survey on a typical single carriageway UK trunk road was undertaken and the driver eye and object heights of vehicles using the route were recorded. The work confirms the consumer trend for larger vehicles with a consequential increase in driver eye height and object height. It finds the values used in current design standards are conservative and robust but potential exists for further review. The results of this study will be useful to roads authorities internationally in defining their own highway design standards.

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“…50VI-1, Denmark), placed at the average seating position of the driver. 34 The measurements were conducted in a temperature and noise regulated garage (V ¼ 206 m 3 , reverberation time (RT 30 ) < 0.2 s at 125-8000 Hz). These measurements are further referred to as vehicle impulse responses (VIRs).…”

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Perceptual aspects of reproduced sound in car cabin acoustics

Kaplanis

Bech

Tervo

et al. 2017

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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An experiment was conducted to determine the perceptual effects of car cabin acoustics on the reproduced sound field. In-car measurements were conducted whilst the cabin's interior was physically modified. The captured sound fields were recreated in the laboratory using a three-dimensional loudspeaker array. A panel of expert assessors followed a rapid sensory analysis protocol, the flash profile, to perceptually characterize and evaluate 12 acoustical conditions of the car cabin using individually elicited attributes. A multivariate analysis revealed the panel's consensus and the identified perceptual constructs. Six perceptual constructs characterize the differences between the acoustical conditions of the cabin, related to bass, ambience, transparency, width and envelopment, brightness, and image focus. The current results indicate the importance of several acoustical properties of a car's interior on the perceived sound qualities. Moreover, they signify the capacity of the applied methodology in assessing spectral and spatial properties of automotive environments in laboratory settings using a time-efficient and flexible protocol.

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How drivers sit in cars

Cited by 30 publications

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The role of visual and nonvisual feedback in a vehicle steering task.

The role of visual and nonvisual feedback in a vehicle steering task.

Naturalistic measurement of driver eye height and object height using photogrammetry

Perceptual aspects of reproduced sound in car cabin acoustics

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