Useful Visual Field Reduction as a Function of Age and Risk of Accident in Simulated Car Driving

Abstract

The adoption of a lower speed by the drivers with a reduced visual field (the elderly ones) is probably an adaptation strategy to process the peripheral information. All useful visual field measurements do not seem to be equivalent to estimate the ability to process information relative to the mobile obstacle. The risk of collision should be estimated only with a useful visual field test using a target localization task.