Visual Perception & Hazard Perception in Driving

Work on what drivers see, where they look, and how they judge motion, distance, and gaps in traffic.

What's here. Visual sampling and gaze behavior (eye_movements_scanning, useful_field_of_view, peripheral_attention), judgments of motion and space (time_to_collision_looming, speed_distance_perception, gap_acceptance), and forward-looking threat detection and its failures (hazard_perception, anticipation, mental_model_of_traffic, looked_but_failed_to_see). visual_occlusion sits here as a method for controlling how much of the scene a driver can sample.

What isn't here.

• hazard perception training programs and their evaluation — Training, Education & Intervention. Here, hazard_perception is a perceptual skill and how it is measured. Curricula, coaching, and whether training transfers to on-road performance are hazard_perception_training in the training category.
• attention as a divided resource across tasks — Cognitive Workload. peripheral_attention here means detection away from the point of gaze. Studies framing attention as capacity split between concurrent demands are attention and attention_allocation there; eyes-off-road caused by a secondary task belongs to the distraction category instead.
• perception-reaction time figures and visibility analysis prepared for litigation — Forensic Human Factors. Casework applications draw on the same perceptual measures but are shelved as perception_reaction_time, visibility_analysis_litigation, and conspicuity_in_litigation. Photometric and conspicuity work on lighting, signs, and glare is in visibility_lighting.