December 2, 2013, by Graham Kendall

Where we drive affects how we drive

For the first time a team of experts have been looking at the cross-cultural effect on drivers’ hazard perception and their research has shown that compared to British drivers, Malaysian motorists are less likely to identify situations as dangerous and also react to them later…

… so starts a piece recently published in phys.org.

The article reports the work of the School of Psychology’s Driving Research Group at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) and The University of Nottingham in the UK.

Hazard perception test: Malaysian participants reacted more slowly to hazards compared with UK drivers, possibly reflecting the more hazardous road environment they are used to.

Hazard perception test: Malaysian participants reacted more slowly to hazards compared with UK drivers, possibly reflecting the more hazardous road environment they are used to.

 

Posted in FoSResearch at UNMC