Collision Risk with Visible Pedestrian Caused by Driver Error while Driving on Non-intersection Road

Abstract

Critical situations with pedestrians while driving on non-intersection road are happen not only hidden pedestrians behind obstructions but also visible pedestrians on a sidewalk. It was one of a feature of critical situation at non-intersection road in previous studies. In this study, we hypothesize that one of the cause is driver's prediction for a pedestrians who will / will not be crossing the road. Therefore, we took an experiment in a test field to confirm the effect of the prediction to pedestrians and analysed vehicle speed and driver's eye movement.