The Second National Driving Test: One for the Road?

Duration: 0:27:00

Year Published: 1981

Creator: MTI Teleprograms | Screenscope

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses volunteers at a party supervised by doctors and psychologists to present a drinking and driving experiment which shows what happens to a driver's vision and judgment while under the influence of alcohol. Defines driving as an information processing task involving alertness, reaction time, and split attention and follows volunteers before and after they reach the legal alcohol limit as they participate in party games designed to test those skills. Observes their performance on a driving simulator, noting that, at the legal limit in most states, blood alcohol reduces information processing ability by as much as 50% but may cause only slight physical impairment.

Complete Record: , Uses volunteers at a party supervised by doctors and psychologists to present a drinking and driving experiment which shows what happens to a driver's vision and judgment while under the influence of alcohol. Defines driving as an information processing task involving alertness, reaction time, and split attention and follows volunteers before and after they reach the legal alcohol limit as they participate in party games designed to test those skills. Observes their performance on a driving simulator, noting that, at the legal limit in most states, blood alcohol reduces information processing ability by as much as 50% but may cause only slight physical impairment.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.