Impacts of Vehicle Information on Reaction Time Based on Driving Simulations

Recently, as the rapid development of electronic information and wireless communication technologies, Communication and information shared between the vehicles become possible. In the case of vehicle communication, driver can know the information of vehicle in front of it, so the reaction time will be different with tradition. The vehicle information of this paper includes headway, acceleration and speed. Firstly, the experiment without vehicle information on driving simulator was done to verify the driving simulator. Then, the experiment with vehicle information on driving simulator was done and the data was analyzed. Finally, the results show that the reaction time with vehicle information obviously less than without vehicle information. The difference of reaction time caused by age increases, however the difference of reaction time caused by gender decreases.