차량용 후방 적색 방향지시등 시인성 분석에 따른 사고예방에 관한 연구

Abstract

According tostatistical data, in the United States, there are approximately 26 cars registered per square Kilometers (㎢). On the other hands, in the Republic of Korea, there are approximately 218 cars per square Kilometers(㎢) registered which is very high-density traffic condition. For such reasons, the rate of traffic accidents in Korea is highest among OECD member countries. In 2015, there were an estimated 232,053 traffic accidents, death toll were 4,621 and 350,400 were injured. For the last ten years, the average number of traffic accidents per 10,000 vehicles was reported as 2.6 cases. The vehicle is a convenient device and became indispensable for modern society but, the traffic accidents continue to occur. There’s no doubt that the vehicle is very convenient device but, in case the traffic accidents occurred, the damage would be also very huge and fatal. Therefore, we should pay extra attention to the prevention of traffic accident. To ensure safe driving, when the driver steers the vehicle, left/right turn or lane change, the driver must obey the relevant traffic regulation. The vehicles are fitted with rear direction indicator lamp for indicating cars heading direction. This rear direction indicator lamp enables a driver to identify ahead car’s intended heading direction. The usage of direction indicator lamp is very important for defensive driving. But more and more drivers are not using direction indicator lamp when they driving the car. Most of the countries (including the Republic of Korea), the color of direction indicator lamp is regulated as amber (orange) color. But only North America permits the application of both amber and red color for rear direction indicator based on F.M.V.S.S (Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard). Due to this reason, when import the vehicle which was made in North America equipped with red direction indicator lamp should change the color of direction indicator lamp to amber color to meet the regulation of in Korea. But recently,as the Korea-U.S. free trade agreement has been signed, since 2016, the vehicle which was made in North America with reddirection indicator lamp is directly imported to the Republic of Korea without changing color. Therefore, this study investigated and analyzed the identification status of the driver in various driving conditions for vehicles with a reddirection indicator lamp.Accordingly, we intended to provide useful information on the prevention of accident against the use of reddirection indicator lamp appliedvehicle.