Developing Divided Attention Tasks Dealing with Distractions

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Developing Divided Attention Tasks
Dealing with Distractions
SOUTHEAST REGION AMERICAN DRIVER AND
TRAFFIC SAFETY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL SPRING
CONFERENCE MYRTLE BEACH 2006
session partially funded by
ADTSEA PROJECT
Download this presentation from
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BE SENSIBLE Dont Drive With Distraction What
is a Distraction?

• A distraction is
• Any activity,
• risk factor, or
• danger that affects
• vehicle path of travel or
• drivers line of sight.

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BE SENSIBLE Dont Drive With Distraction What
is critical to driving?

• The path of travel
• Crucial to keeping a car within the lane of
  travel
• The line of sight
• Allows the driver to see far enough ahead to
• Have the time and space needed to make speed and
  position adjustments

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BE SENSIBLE Dont Drive With Distraction
Consequences of Distracted Driving?

• Lack of Attention
• One of the leading causes of collisions
• Forces driver to make sudden decisions
• The NHTSA Numbers Say
• Over 1,500,000 collisions per year
• Means 4,300 collisions per day
• Means 179 collisions per hour
• You can easily be involved in a collision

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BE SENSIBLE Dont Drive With Distraction How
Do Distractions Happen?

• Driver must process information
• Visual, kinesthetic, hearing, touch, smell inputs
  are bombarding brain
• What is most crucial to place the vehicle in the
  appropriate path of travel
• Too much information to process
• Driver panics
• Driver shuts down evaluation process
• Driver reacts abruptly without planning
  appropriate speed, position, or communication
• What are Some Examples

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BE SENSIBLE Dont Drive With Distraction What
Can a Driver Do?

• Operating a Vehicle is Coordinating Skills
• Eye-hand and foot coordination
• Repetitive actions and procedural tasks
• Driving a Vehicle is a Mental Process
• Driving system needed to manage time and space
• Search and recognize restrictions to path of
  travel or line of sight
• Respond to restrictions or changes with
• appropriate speed adjustment
• appropriate position adjustment
• appropriate communication of intentions

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BE SENSIBLE Dont Drive With Distraction
Dividing Attention to Driving Tasks?

• Progression of Learning
• Knowing the Controls
• Keeping Vehicle on Roadway
• Keeping Vehicle in Lane
• Placing Vehicle in Lane Position
• Placing Vehicle in Lane to Avoid Risk
• Handling Distractions
• Keeping vehicle in path while checking speed
• Adjusting speed and lane position while checking
  pedestrian and speed of the vehicle
• Using signal, checking mirror, braking, moving to
  the left, checking speed, and the pedestrian
• Dividing Attention is Crucial to Decision-making

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BE SENSIBLE Dont Drive With Distraction
Reducing Consequences?

• Use a Driving System to Manage Space and Time
• Perform Tasks Inside the Vehicle when Stopped
• Look Away from Path of Travel for ½ Second
  Intervals Only
• Glance at a Distraction Several Times Rather than
  One Stare Longer than ½ Second
• Learn to Divide Attention to Driving Tasks
• Ask Passengers to Help

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Divided Attention

• Visual process
• Searching effectively
• Focal and useful field of view process
• Not a peripheral vision process
• Mental process
• Mental awareness is focused on one activity
• Awareness can move from one process to another
• Brain does not process peripheral information
  without focusing for more information

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Normal Focus Vision Process
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Normal UFOV Process
Focus on target at the end of roadway and move
toward screen then move away from screen. Your
UFOV at work
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Developing In-Car Learning Strand

• Develop targeting skills for POT
• Divide target to speed visual/mental attention
• Divide target to dashboard control visual/mental
  attention
• Divide target and sign controls visual/mental
  attention
• Divide target and intersection controls attention
• Divide target and intersection entry/exit
  attention
• Divide target and curve entry/apex/exit attention

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Developing In-Car Learning Strand

• Your turn.
• Give examples for learning strands
• Divide target and.

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Developing In-Car Learning Strand

• In-car Lesson One (Pre Assessment)
• Develop targeting skills for POT 4 to 8 seconds
  ahead
• Divide target to speed visual/mental attention
• Divide target to mirror views pulling to /from
  curb line
• In-car Lesson Two (Formative Assessment)
• Develop targeting skills for POT 8 to 12 seconds
  ahead
• Divide target to speed visual/mental attention
• Divide target to dashboard control visual/mental
  attention
• Divide target to mirror views when stopping

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Developing In-Car Learning Strand

• In-car Lesson Three (Formative Assessment)
• Divide target to speed visual/mental attention
• Divide target to dashboard control visual/mental
  attention
• Divide target and sign controls visual/mental
  attention
• Divide target and signal controls visual/mental
  attention
• Divide target to mirror views when stopping,
  starting, picking up speed, and lane change
• Divide target and intersection controls attention
• In-car lesson Four (Formative Assessment)
• Develop targeting skills for POT 12 to 15 seconds
  ahead
• Divide target and sign controls visual/mental
  attention
• Divide target and intersection controls attention
• Divide target and intersection entry/exit
  attention

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Developing a Learning Strand

• In-car Lesson Five (Formative Assessment)
• Develop targeting skills for POT 15-20 seconds
• Divide target area and multiple lane positions
• Divide target area and mirror views lane change
• In-car Lesson Six (Formative Assessment)
• Divide target area and speed control signs
• Divide target area and hill entry/apex/exit
• Divide target area and curve entry/apex/exit
  attention

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The future distractions
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Developing Divided Attention Tasks
Dealing with Distractions
SOUTHEAST REGION AMERICAN DRIVER AND
TRAFFIC SAFETY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL SPRING
CONFERENCE MYRTLE BEACH 2006
session partially funded by
ADTSEA PROJECT
Download this presentation from
http//www.adtsea.org