This article talks about a real controversial debate on the UK, that has relation with the “middle lane hogging”, a very important trouble for the UK’s people, and that the Institute of Psychological Science at Leeds’ University try to explain by a curious experiment. Apparently, for the british people its more confortable to drive in the middle of the road.
According to the researches, this phenomenon it’s explained because the old drivers have something like a “built-in safety mechanism” that would lead them to drive in the middle of the road, because they would felt more safe to avoid manoeuvres which could test them to have slowing reactions.
The experiment was made with a touch-screen laptop for the people that was teasted by the researches. They asked them to trace wiggly lines of varying widths-slowly, and at their own prederred pace. After that, they have to steering along 'virtual' winding roads in a driving simulator, with a complimentary tour of the labs to conclude the process.
The purpose of the work is partly to tackle the road-hogging issue than to analyse behaviour in a way which may suggest new ways of helping patients to recover lost motor skills. The experiment's volunteers did not get on to 'virtual' motorways during the research; their 'middle of the road' approach was confined to the lanes set out for them on the laptops and the simulator.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/jan/04/transport-transport-leedsuniversity-richardwilkie-ruthraw-middlelanehogging
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