Cognition and affect in measures of driving style

Abstract

The study of the dispositions of drivers to drive in particular styles provides important clues to the likelihood of unsafe actions occurring in their driving. In this paper, data of occurrences and non-occurrences of certain actions during test drives, collected by S. W. Quenault, are analysed in a two-dimensional framework of cognitive and affective styles. Some other driver performance studies are then reviewed in this light, and some new data are reported arising from the use of Quenault's reported technique on male and female groups of drivers matched for age and experience.