Tactical hazard mitigation performance was marginally better in the ACCEL group as compared to the placebo group. Tactical attention maintenance – avoiding ever glancing away from the forward roadway for more than two seconds at a time.Īt post-training evaluation, the ACCEL training group performed better than the placebo training group in five of the six skills.Strategic attention maintenance – avoiding looking away from the forward roadway when a potential or immediate latent hazard is likely to emerge.Tactical hazard mitigation – maneuvering the vehicle upon immediate approach to avoid a latent hazard.Strategic hazard mitigation – recognizing when there may be latent hazards ahead and searching where the hazards are likely to emerge.Tactical hazard anticipation – recognizing upon immediate approach that a hazard may emerge.Strategic hazard anticipation – recognizing when there may be latent hazards ahead.The program targeted six skills in the context of specific crash types based on a literature review of factors linked to novice driver crash risk including: The researchers developed Accelerated Curriculum to Create Effective Learning (ACCEL), a computer-based training program that can be downloaded from the internet on any personal computing device (e.g., laptops, smartphones, and tablets). The purpose of this study was to develop a novice driver training program to target skills needed to avoid crashes in the riskiest scenarios and to evaluate its effectiveness in improving critical skills among novice teen drivers. Recent novice driver training programs have not comprehensively trained all of these skills nor the aforementioned crash types in which teens are over-involved. Their high crash involvement may be due to underdeveloped skills in anticipating hidden or latent hazards, avoiding or mitigating hazards, and dividing attention between in-vehicle glances and the roadway. Rear-end, intersection and run-off-road crashes account for the majority of these crashes. Novice teen drivers have highly elevated crash rates during the first few months of independent driving. The purpose of this study was to develop a training program to improve these critical skills, and to evaluate the effect of the program on the skills of young novice drivers within the context of specific driving scenarios in which teen driver crashes often occur. Previous research has shown that young novice drivers perform much worse than do experienced drivers in three key areas that likely contribute to their significantly elevated crash rates: keeping their attention focused on the forward roadway, recognizing latent or hidden hazards in the driving environment, and taking appropriate action in response to such hazards.
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