The Effect of Glare on Visual Performance Under Reduced Headlamp Illumination

2005-01-0447

04/11/2005

Event
SAE 2005 World Congress & Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
Target detection experiments were performed to examine the possibility of dimming forward lighting in lit areas while maintaining the drivers' visual performance, both with and without oncoming headlamp glare. These experimental results suggested that target detection distance was reduced as the eccentricity angle of targets increases; detection distance was reduced by up to 30 m with oncoming glare; and forward lighting systems only helped drivers detect targets located on the opponent side of oncoming glare at the highest eccentricity. These results implied that forward lighting systems can be dimmed to reduce glare without significantly impairing drivers' performance if fixed street lighting provides sufficient illuminance, therefore confirming the feasibility of AFS as a glare reduction measure.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2005-01-0447
Pages
8
Citation
Akashi, Y., Van Derlofske, J., Bullough, J., and Cheng, J., "The Effect of Glare on Visual Performance Under Reduced Headlamp Illumination," SAE Technical Paper 2005-01-0447, 2005, https://doi.org/10.4271/2005-01-0447.
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Published
Apr 11, 2005
Product Code
2005-01-0447
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English