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... 51 C h a p t e r 6 This chapter conducts a series of analyses targeting the research question, What are the most dangerous glances away from the road, and what are safer glances? It also examines the research question, Can risk from distracting activities (secondary tasks)
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... 52 Figure 6.1. Percentage of glance locations over time in crash events for the 12 seconds before and 1 second after the crash point (at 0 seconds)
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... 53 Figure 6.3. Percentage of glance locations over time in matched baseline events for the 12 seconds before and 1 second after a randomly chosen reference point (at 0 seconds)
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... 54 (Recall from Chapter 4 that Talking/Listening on Cell Phone was not present in any crash.) In this calculation, the mean values rather than time series were used.
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... 55 that glances associated with the hanging up activity were excluded, the total proportion of off-path glances would have been somewhat lower for the talking/listening cases and thus indicative of a general gaze-concentration effect. Moreover, almost 100% of the glances in the talking/listening events would have been driving-related (left or right windshield and mirrors)
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... 56 test shows no significant difference. This likely reflects a lack of statistical power associated with the small sample of crashes.
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... 57 Cumulative Risk for Time Segments Preceding Crash or Minimum Time to Collision The preceding analysis of the proportion of time eyes were off the forward path shows that eyes off the forward path during windows of time near the precipitating event or the minimum time to collision are particularly risky but that earlier windows may also be influential. That is, the odds ratios are highest for the window from 3 seconds to 1 second before the crash point, but the odds ratios in the two preceding windows also achieve statistical significance.
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... 58 the eyes are off the forward path during a 2-second window. All these are additive, except for the case in which the interaction was tested (i.e., Off3to1+ Off11to9+ Off3to1X Off11to9)
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... 59 the best model in Table 6.1 (Off3to1, AIC 320.39)
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... 60 shown in Figure 6.9 represent the incremental increase in odds associated with one unit of change in the glance metric. Glances can last 13 seconds, whereas time proportion of the time windows in the previous section ranged between zero and 1.
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... 61 Figure 6.11. Odds ratios and confidence intervals for various uncertainty characteristics.
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... 62 model based only on the proportion of glances off-path (AIC 320.39) , at a Delta AIC difference of 3.31.
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... 63 activities (secondary tasks)
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... 64 comparable window of time closer to the crash or nearcrash minTTC. It is possible that the influences of distracting activities can be explained by this more powerful three-metric glance model.

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