Age vs. experience : evaluation of a video feedback intervention for newly licensed teen drivers.

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• Creators:
  McGehee, Daniel V. ; Reyes, Michelle L. ; Carney, Cher
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Iowa. Public Policy Center
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Teenage drivers
  • Driver experience
  • Video cameras
  • Age groups
  • Driver licenses
  • Human error
  • Novices
• Publication/ Report Number:
  TPF-5(207)
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Iowa
• Corporate Publisher:
  Iowa. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  This project examines the effects of age, experience, and video-based feedback on the rate and type of safety-relevant events captured on video event ; recorders in the vehicles of three groups of newly licensed young drivers: ; 1. 14.5- to 15.5-year-old drivers who hold a minor school license (see Appendix A for the provisions of the Iowa code governing minor school ; licenses) ; 2. 16-year-old drivers with an intermediate license who are driving unsupervised for the first time ; 3. 16-year-old drivers with an intermediate license who previously drove unsupervised for at least four months with a school license ; METHODS ; The young drivers’ vehicles were equipped with an event-triggered video recording device for 24 weeks. Half of the participants received ; feedback regarding their driving, and the other half received no feedback at all and served as a control group. The number of safety-relevant events per 1,000 ; miles (i.e., “event rate”) was analyzed for 90 participants who completed the study. ; RESULTS ; On average, the young drivers who received the video-based intervention had significantly lower event rates than those in the control group. This ; finding was true for all three groups. An effect of experience was seen for drivers in the control group; the 16-year-olds with driving experience had ; significantly lower event rates than the 16-year-olds without experience. When the intervention concluded, an increase in event rate was seen for the school ; license holders, but not for either group of 16-year-old drivers. ; There is strong evidence that giving young drivers video-based feedback, regardless of their age or level of driving experience, is effective in ; reducing the rate of safety-relevant events relative to a control group who do not receive feedback. Specific comparisons with regard to age and experience ; indicated that the age of the driver did not have an effect on the rate of safety-events, while experience did. Young drivers with six months or more of ; additional experience behind the wheel had nearly half as many safety-relevant events as those without that experience.
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  PDF
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  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/26465/dot_26465_DS1.pdf
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• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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