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The most identified road signs were some of the more common ones. Nearly 100% of drivers could pinpoint the merge sign. Only about 1 out of 10 had trouble with signs like the right lane ends ahead.
MOTORISTS are making mistakes at the wheel because of a lack of understanding of road signs, according to research. A study found that the average driver doesn’t recognise the meaning of a fifth ...
The study did not find the same problem with other more mundane messages on the digital highway signs — which in Utah may include jokes, travel times to key destinations or warnings about ...
The research, based on several years of crash and road-sign data from Texas, shows the number of vehicle crashes increased, on average, by 4.5% in the 6.2 miles following a fatality-statistic message.
In one of the experiments described in the study, researchers found that the participants behind the wheel reacted at an average of 50 milliseconds faster with the use of a more dynamic sign.
Posting traffic death toll numbers on highway signs — which the Iowa Department of Transportation has done since 2013 — doesn’t reduce crashes and may actually increase them, a new study shows.
According to the study, 139 out of 2,403 Nevada drivers, or 5.78%, were non-compliant. ... New study says Nevada drivers are least likely to obey traffic signs.
Evtimov et al., arXiv.org In a test of a right-turn sign, a mask that filled in the arrow on the sign resulted in a 100 percent misclassification rate. In two thirds of the trials, the right-turn ...
Their study looked specifically at Texas crashes from 2010 through 2017 and suggests the signs caused an extra 2,600 accidents over that time with 16 deadly wrecks.
Nearly 75% of road signs, traffic signals and road markings in Delhi are not up to the mark and lead to millions of traffic violations without road users being at fault, says a study Mayank ...
The study, which released by the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) last week, found that drivers are not any more likely to be distracted by digital billboards than stationary signs.
All-way stop signs have been added to a busy and crash-prone Babylon Village intersection after months of residents urging action and at the recommendation of a county traffic study.