リヤカメラシステムを使用した車両駐車におけるリスク

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This paper discusses the risks drivers encounter when parking their vehicles while using rear view camera systems. Rear view camera systems provide drivers with video imagery from the rear view perspective of their own vehicles. However, such systems do not provide full 180° views of the areas behind vehicles, which results in blind spots that the drivers must inspect directly. Yet some drivers may become too reliant on their rear view camera systems and neglect to make visual checks of such blind spots while parking. Such over-reliance increases the risk of collision with unobserved obstacles (e.g., bicycles or pedestrians) in the parking area. This paper reports on the results of an experiment conducted to investigate the effects of rear view camera system usage on driver attention allocation during parking maneuvers. The results showed that it was easier for drivers to park their vehicles at their desired position when a rear view camera system was available than when it was unavailable, but that drivers tended to pay less attention to blind spots when using the system. This reduction of driver attention to blind spots was particularly significant during the final parking phase.