Citation

Kitamura F, Matsunaga K, Nagao I. Percept. Mot. Skills 1994; 78(3): 1059-1065.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7936927

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to determine what effect (if any) looking at an automobile's hazard lights has on the direction in which a car is driven. Eight Japanese drivers participated in this experiment. Analysis indicated that (a) at night drivers passed closer to a forward-facing stationary car than during the day and (b) when instructions were given to look at the hazard lights of a forward-facing stationary car, drivers passed closer than when no such instructions were given or when the hazard lights were off. The relationship between looking at the visible targets in a visually poor environment and the direction in which a car is driven was discussed.

Language: en