Citation

Cohen AS, Fischer H. Int. J. Veh. Des. 1988; 9(4-5): 533-541.

Affiliation

Federal Inst of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Inderscience Publishers)

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Abstract

To study this question drivers' eye movements were recorded with windshield wipers off and on. It was assumed that impeded vision would be manifested by a differing pattern of eye movements in the two conditions investigated. The quantitative data for the eye movements were analyzed. The results suggest that operated windshield wipers do not impair vision. However, the relation between the eyes and the head is affected when the windshield wiper is on, which we suppose to be a result of a compensatory process. The results are discussed in terms of focusing attention on the road which is accompanied by binocular phenomena like suppression of one foveal image, when the two images range beyond the Panums area whereby the prevalence of the image focused on facilitates the uninterrupted information flow from the scenery ahead.