Steering Reversals as a Measure of Driver Performance and Steering Task Difficulty

Abstract

A review is made of past work in which steering reversal rates were used as a measure of driver performance. The data from two previously reported experiments carried out in a controlled situation, are used to compare steering reversal rates with other performance measures. It is shown that, while steering reversal rates correlate with other measures of control frequency, they do not necessarily correlate with measures of absolute steering performance. This result is consistent with the view that frequency characteristics provide a measure of steering task difficulty rather than steering performance. It is shown that, when considering steering task difficulty, care must be taken to differentiate between the difficulty imposed by the task constraints and the factors which affect the driver's ability to maintain a level of performance commensurate with those constraints.

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