title: Detecting Approaching Vehicles at Streets with No Traffic Control.
abstract: This study assessed the ability of people with visual impairments to reliably detect oncoming traffic at crossing situations with no traffic control. In at least one condition, the participants could not hear vehicles to afford a safe crossing time when sound levels were as quiet as possible. Significant predictors of detection accounted for a third of the variation in the detection time.
authors.affiliation: Department of Blindness and Low Vision, Western Michigan University, 1903 West Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI 49008; < robert.wall@wmich.edu >.
authors.forename: Robert Wall
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Emerson
authors.forename: Dona
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sauerburger