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Video-based road commentary training improves hazard perception of young drivers in a dual task

Abstract
This study used a video-based hazard perception dual task to compare the hazard perception skills of young drivers with middle aged, more experienced drivers and to determine if these skills can be improved with video-based road commentary training. The primary task required the participants to detect and verbally identify immediate hazard on video-based traffic scenarios while concurrently performing a secondary tracking task, simulating the steering of real driving. The results showed that the young drivers perceived fewer immediate hazards (mean = 75.2%, n = 24, 19 females) than the more experienced drivers (mean = 87.5%, n = 8, all females), and had longer hazard perception times, but performed better in the secondary tracking task. After the road commentary training, the mean percentage of hazards detected and identified by the young drivers improved to the level of the experienced drivers and was significantly higher than that of an age and driving experience matched control group. The results will be discussed in the context of psychological theories of hazard perception and in relation to road commentary as an evidence-based training intervention that seems to improve many aspects of unsafe driving behaviour in young drivers.
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Journal Article
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Isler, R. B., Starkey, N.J. & Lee, W. G., Meurk, C. D. & Clarkson, B. D. (2009). Video-based road commentary training improves hazard perception of young drivers in a dual task. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 41(3), 445-452.
Date
2009
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Elsevier Ltd
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This is an author’s accepted version of an article published in the journal: Accident Analysis & Prevention. ©2009 Elsevier Ltd.