Improving motorcycle motion perception by using innovative motorcycle headlight configurations: Evidence from simulator and test-track experiments

Autor: Stéphane Espié, Viola Cavallo, Nguyen-Thong Dang
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire sur la Perception, les Intéractions, les Comportements et la Simulation des usagers de la route et de la rue (COSYS-PICS-L), Université Gustave Eiffel, Méthodes et Outils pour les Signaux et Systèmes (SATIE-MOSS), Systèmes d'Information et d'Analyse Multi-Echelles (SIAME), Systèmes et Applications des Technologies de l'Information et de l'Energie (SATIE), École normale supérieure - Rennes (ENS Rennes)-Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] (CNAM)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS Paris Saclay)-Université Gustave Eiffel-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY)-École normale supérieure - Rennes (ENS Rennes)-Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] (CNAM)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS Paris Saclay)-Université Gustave Eiffel-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY)-Systèmes et Applications des Technologies de l'Information et de l'Energie (SATIE), École normale supérieure - Rennes (ENS Rennes)-Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] (CNAM)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS Paris Saclay)-Université Gustave Eiffel-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY)-École normale supérieure - Rennes (ENS Rennes)-Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM] (CNAM)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS Paris Saclay)-Université Gustave Eiffel-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY)
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Accident Analysis and Prevention
Accident Analysis and Prevention, Elsevier, 2021, 157, 8p. ⟨10.1016/j.aap.2021.106118⟩
ISSN: 1879-2057
0001-4575
Popis: Many motorcycle accidents occur at intersections and are caused by other vehicle drivers who misperceive the speed and time-to-arrival of an approaching motorcycle. The two experiments reported here tested different motorcycle headlight configurations likely to counteract this perceptual failure. In the first experiment, conducted on a driving simulator, car drivers turned left in front of cars and motorcycles approaching an intersection under nighttime lighting conditions. The motorcycles were equipped with either a standard white central light, or one of three vertical configurations of white and yellow lights. The results showed that the standard configuration led to significantly more unsafe accepted gaps than the vertical configurations. In the second experiment, conducted on a test track using a similar task, the most promising motorcycle headlight configuration, i.e., the vertical yellow-white light arrangement (one central white light, plus one yellow light on the helmet and two yellow lights on the fork) was evaluated and compared to a standard configuration and a car. The vertical yellow-white headlight configuration again provided significant safety benefits as compared to the standard configuration. These findings demonstrate that motorcycle safety can be improved by headlight ergonomics that accentuate the vertical dimension of motorcycles. They also suggest that the driving simulator is a valid tool for conducting research on motorcycle headlight design.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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