title: Assessments of risky driving: a Go/No-Go simulator driving task to evaluate risky decision-making and associated behavioral patterns.
abstract: This study sought to develop and validate a Go/No-Go Simulator Driving Task (G/NG-SDT) to evaluate driver risky decision-making and associated behavioral assessments at a situation-specific level. Eighty-four participants were instructed to complete a route in as short time as possible, but avoiding any violations or crashes. To achieve this aim, they had to decide to go or wait in the dilemma scenes, paired with the baseline scenes in several scenarios. High-risk drivers with more Go decisions demonstrated more violations, in both simulator tasks and real road driving, as well as higher scores of Driving Behavior Questionnaire (DBQ) violations and more Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) pumps. These high-risk drivers also showed distinguishable behavioral patterns in simulator driving, moderated by the specific driving situations (e.g. scenario and scene). Several behavior assessments were consistently distinguishable in all tested situations, qualified as robust indictors to predict risk-taking in more general driving situations.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Automobile Safety and Energy, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; IBM Research, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Yutao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ba
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Automobile Safety and Energy, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Electronic address: zhangwei@tsinghua.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Automobile Safety and Energy, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Gavriel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Salvendy
authors.affiliation: Ergonomics and Human Performance Laboratory, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Andy S K
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: Division of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: Petya
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ventsislavova
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000523:psychology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012309:Risk-Taking; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Behavioral patterns; Decision-making; Risky driving; Simulator