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Do not drive and touch: effects of a manual destination entry task in a navigator on driving performance

  • Autores: Valero-Mora, P.; Pareja, I.; Sánchez, M.; Ballestar, M.L.; Sanmartín, J.
  • (2010).
  • Tipos de publicación: Acta congrés
  • European conference on Human Centred Design for Intelligent Transport Systems, Berlin, April 23-30.

  • Resumen:

    Manipulating an electronic device when driving is regarded as very unsafe. However, it is not unusual to see drivers interacting with all sorts of devices behind the wheel. In Spain, a new legislative initiative pursues punishing drivers with two points in the penalty point system if operating a navigator when driving. In order to illustrate the negative consequences of this behaviour, we set 43 subjects to drive in the driving simulator SIMUVEG while introducing directions in a navigator. Several performance measures were recorded for these subjects. Intrasubject comparisons revealed significant differences for many of these measures providing evidence of the negative consequences of such interactions.

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