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Cognitive bias analysis of young novice drivers’ observation abilities—A questionnaire-based study

Observation ability, which is the basis of following decision-making and vehicle manipulation behaviour, is of great importance while driving. However, the subject self-cognition and objective assessment of driving ability are usually different, especially for the young novice drivers. In this paper...

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Autores principales: Xiang, Wang, Liu, Xuemei, Peng, Qunjie, Xue, Qingwan, Hao, Wei, Yu, Ji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8112646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33974678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251195
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author Xiang, Wang
Liu, Xuemei
Peng, Qunjie
Xue, Qingwan
Hao, Wei
Yu, Ji
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Liu, Xuemei
Peng, Qunjie
Xue, Qingwan
Hao, Wei
Yu, Ji
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description Observation ability, which is the basis of following decision-making and vehicle manipulation behaviour, is of great importance while driving. However, the subject self-cognition and objective assessment of driving ability are usually different, especially for the young novice drivers. In this paper, drivers’ observation abilities for both static traffic signs and markings and dynamic surrounding vehicles were investigated based on questionnaire data. Effects of gender and driving characteristics (driving year, driving frequency, driving time) on drivers’ observation abilities were verified by ANOVA analysis and structural equation model (SEM) from two aspects: drivers’ self-assessment scores (self-assessment) and mutual assessment scores (evaluated by others). Significant difference could be found between all the factors and drivers’ self-assessment scores, while only driving year had a significant effect on drivers’ mutual assessment scores. Besides, cognitive bias was found between all the driving year groups. It seemed that drivers with driving experience less than one year were always overconfident with their driving abilities. And drivers with driving experience more than three years usually gave the most conservative assessment scores for themselves and others. With more exposures to various traffic conditions, experienced drivers are more aware of their limitations on observing surrounding information, while young novice drivers still not realized their limitations on observing traffic signs and other vehicles in a right way.
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spelling pubmed-81126462021-05-21 Cognitive bias analysis of young novice drivers’ observation abilities—A questionnaire-based study Xiang, Wang Liu, Xuemei Peng, Qunjie Xue, Qingwan Hao, Wei Yu, Ji PLoS One Research Article Observation ability, which is the basis of following decision-making and vehicle manipulation behaviour, is of great importance while driving. However, the subject self-cognition and objective assessment of driving ability are usually different, especially for the young novice drivers. In this paper, drivers’ observation abilities for both static traffic signs and markings and dynamic surrounding vehicles were investigated based on questionnaire data. Effects of gender and driving characteristics (driving year, driving frequency, driving time) on drivers’ observation abilities were verified by ANOVA analysis and structural equation model (SEM) from two aspects: drivers’ self-assessment scores (self-assessment) and mutual assessment scores (evaluated by others). Significant difference could be found between all the factors and drivers’ self-assessment scores, while only driving year had a significant effect on drivers’ mutual assessment scores. Besides, cognitive bias was found between all the driving year groups. It seemed that drivers with driving experience less than one year were always overconfident with their driving abilities. And drivers with driving experience more than three years usually gave the most conservative assessment scores for themselves and others. With more exposures to various traffic conditions, experienced drivers are more aware of their limitations on observing surrounding information, while young novice drivers still not realized their limitations on observing traffic signs and other vehicles in a right way. Public Library of Science 2021-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8112646/ /pubmed/33974678 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251195 Text en © 2021 Xiang et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Cognitive bias analysis of young novice drivers’ observation abilities—A questionnaire-based study
title_sort cognitive bias analysis of young novice drivers’ observation abilities—a questionnaire-based study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8112646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33974678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251195
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