Features of Pedestrian Behavior in Car-to-Pedestrian Contact Situations in Near-Miss Incidents in Japan.

Conclusions: The authors propose that a moving speed of a pedestrian surrogate "dummy" should be determined considering the near-miss incident situations for the evaluation of a CDMBS for pedestrian detection. The authors also propose that the time-to-collision of the dummy to the tested car during the evaluation of the performance of the CDMBS for pedestrian detection should be determined considering the time such as the vehicle TTC in this study. Additionally or alternatively, the pedestrian TTV should be considered, in which the worst situation was assumed for a car that was moving toward a pedestrian without braking due to the car driver's inattentiveness and the pedestrian not slowing down their walking speed or stopping.
PMID: 23905703 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - August 5, 2013 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Matsui Y, Hitosugi M, Doi T, Oikawa S, Takahashi K, Ando K Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research