Driving experience and time-sharing during in-car tasks on roads of different width

摘要

Earlier research has not found consistent differences between the way novices and experienced drivers allocate time between road and in-car tasks when average time spent on the latter is being considered. This study addresses the question of whethr novices occasionally fail in supervisory control more often than experienced drivers. The influence of driving experience and road type on the allocation of visual attention was investigated by analysing the distribution of glance duration at in-car tasks for 23 experienced (life-time driving experience 50 000-2000000 km) and 24 inexperienced (life-time driving experience 400- 15 000 km) drivers.