Abstract
The equivalence of arrival-time estimations performed in vehicle and using video images was studied. The design consisted in 2 Sexes × (2 Tests × 4 Speeds × 4 Distances). The participants, 20 men and 20 women, seated in the front passenger's seat of an automobile and temporarily deprived of sight, estimated the car's arrival time at targets. The times to be estimated were generated by varying 4 speeds by 4 distances. The same subjects estimated the same arrival times in a video, filmed from the same position and scenario. Findings indicated high equivalence of vehicle and video in experimental results (underestimation of time, increase of errors with the time to be estimated). However, when considered individual skills, both estimations had a moderate relationship (r= .52), which, for applied purposes, does not justify substituting estimation in vehicles with that performed using videos.
