title: [Empirical studies on the performance of elderly automobile drivers].
abstract: Before the year 2000 the number of elderly drivers (65 years and older) in the Federal Republic of Germany will probably double. Concerns about traffic safety predominate-under the broadly accepted assumption that the elderly drive less cautiously. The most important results of driving tests of elderly drivers (and a comparison group of middle-aged) and their relation to performance measures are presented. The results show that the elderly drivers performed worse in laboratory tests, but in driving tests (in a significant number of different traffic situations) they did not differ unfavourably from the middle-aged drivers.
authors: Universität Essen, Gesamthochschule.
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authors: Schlag
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D001333:Automobile Driver Examination; D001334:Automobile Driving; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011597:Psychomotor Performance
vernacular_title: Empirische Untersuchungen zur Leistungsfähigkeit älterer Kraftfahrer.