Driving performance during concurrent cell-phone use: are drivers aware of their performance decrements?

摘要: Abstract Prior research has documented the manner in which a variety of driving performance measures are impacted by concurrent cell-phone use as well influence age and gender driver. This current study examined extent to different driver groups aware their associated decrements. Subjects’ confidence dealing with distractors while ratings task demand were compared actual presence task. While high appeared be predictive better for male drivers (as increased, size distraction effects decreased), this relationship did not hold females; fact, older females, decreased. Additionally, when matched terms level, brake responses females slowed much greater (0.38 s) than any other group (0.10 s younger males 0.07 s males). Finally, also rated less demanding males, even though was more greatly affected distraction. These results suggest that many may decreased using cell-phones it particularly important target educational campaigns on towards female whom there tended discrepancy between perceptions performance.