Citation

Rock PB, Harris MG, Yates T. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 2006; 32(6): 1479-1484.

Affiliation

School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom. p.b.rock@bham.ac.uk

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/0096-1523.32.6.1479

PMID

17154786

Abstract

A controlled experiment used instrumented vehicles in a real-world driving task to compare D. N. Lee's (1976) tau-dot hypothesis of braking control with an alternative based on the direct estimation and control of ideal deceleration (T. Yates, M. Harris, & P. Rock, 2004). Drivers braked to stop as closely as possible to a visual target from different starting speeds and times-to-contact. The data provided little support for the tau-dot hypothesis, and analysis suggested that braking in the real world is better explained by a direct deceleration strategy.

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