Vision and Visibility in Vehicular Accident Reconstruction

Phillips, E S; Khatua, Tara P.; Kost, Garrison; Piziali, Robert L.

doi:10.4271/900369

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“…One of the most promising courtroom applications of IVEs is re‐creating crime and accident scenes (i.e., Phillips 1990). In other words, lawyers can create an extremely realistic schematic of the exact site on which a crime or accident occurred, including inanimate objects from the scene, witnesses, victims, and suspects from the scene, atmospheric conditions from the scene such as bright light or fog, background noise such as traffic sounds, and literally any sensory information that may have been on the scene.…”

Section: A Recreating Crime and Accident Scenesmentioning

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Courtroom Applications of Virtual Environments, Immersive Virtual Environments, and Collaborative Virtual Environments

Bailenson¹,

Blascovich²,

Beall³

et al. 2006

Law & Policy

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Section: A Recreating Crime and Accident Scenesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Courtroom Applications of Virtual Environments, Immersive Virtual Environments, and Collaborative Virtual Environments

Bailenson¹,

Blascovich²,

Beall³

et al. 2006

Law & Policy

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“…Of course, things never appear out of thin air, neither in magic shows, nor in everyday life, but they do seem to appear out of thin air in magic shows, and car drivers involved in an accident often report that another road user seemed to appear out of nowhere just before impact (Green, 2018 ; Marshall et al, 2012 ; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2008 ; Phillips et al, 1990 ; Rumar, 1990 ). Because questions of culpability are involved, such statements made by car drivers may not always reflect the actual state of affairs, but we cannot a priori rule out the possibility that at least some of these reports are accurate descriptions of the driver's experience of the situation.…”

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The illusion of absence: how a common feature of magic shows can explain a class of road accidents

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The purpose of the present note is to draw attention to the potential role of a recently discovered visual illusion in creating traffic accidents. The illusion consists in a compelling and immediate experience that the space behind an occluding object in the foreground is empty. Although the illusion refers to a region of space, which is invisible due to occlusion (a blind spot), there is evidence to suggest that it is nevertheless driven by visual mechanisms and that it can be just as deceptive and powerful as ordinary visual illusions. We suggest that this novel illusion can make situations involving blind spots in a road user's field of view even more dangerous than one would expect based on the lack of visibility by itself. This could be because it erroneously makes the road user feel that (s)he has actually seen everything there is to see, and thus has verified that the blind spot is empty. This hypothesis requires further testing before definitive conclusions can be drawn, but we wish to make researchers and authorities involved in the analysis of traffic accidents and on-the-spot crash investigations aware of its potential role in order to encourage registration of relevant data and facilitate further research.

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Simulating Headlamp Illumination Using Photometric Light Clusters

Neale¹,

Hessel²

2009

SAE Technical Paper Series

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Vision and Visibility in Vehicular Accident Reconstruction

Cited by 5 publications

References 4 publications

Courtroom Applications of Virtual Environments, Immersive Virtual Environments, and Collaborative Virtual Environments

Courtroom Applications of Virtual Environments, Immersive Virtual Environments, and Collaborative Virtual Environments

The illusion of absence: how a common feature of magic shows can explain a class of road accidents

Simulating Headlamp Illumination Using Photometric Light Clusters

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