Cognitive Skills Assessed & Trained

FleetFit™ both assesses and trains nine cognitive skills used in safe driving.

Here is a brief summary of these skills and 3 personality traits also assessed:

Visual Scanning
The speed and efficiency at which relevant information is actively found in the surroundings.

For example, a person is driving on a straight road and hasn't checked the side mirrors. As a result, the driver is surprised when suddenly noticing that he/she is being overtaken by a large truck.

Obeying Traffic Regulations
A tendency to obey or disobey certain traffic rules according to the driver's subjective judgment.
For example, a driver’s failing to stop at a stop sign when there is no traffic on the road.

Short-Term Memory
The amount of visual or auditory information gathered and remembered for a short time. The span ranges from 5 to 9 objects.
For example, the ability to recall objects such as signs, car brands and people that you have just passed on the road.

Risk-Taking
A tendency to choose a risky option rather than a conservative one.
For example, when merging into highway traffic, the driver chooses to merge when a passing car is close rather than waiting for a better opportunity.

Confidence
The relationship between a person's performance and self evaluation. There are two main types:

• Under confidence (negative self evaluation and high performance)
• Over confidence (positive self evaluation and low performance).

For example, accurately assessing how much time is needed to stop at a red light and breaking early enough to accomplish this.

Speed and Distance Assessment
The capacity to estimate an object's future location based on its current speed and distance.
For example, how well a driver merging into traffic on a highway (to the left) can judge oncoming traffic that affects merging safely.

Divided Attention
The ability to perform two or more tasks simultaneously.
For example, driving in reverse to park while talking to a passenger.

Hand-Eye Coordination
The level of sensitivity in which the hand and eye are synchronized.
For example, successfully navigating between obstacles on the road.

Changing Plans
A flexibility factor which describes the ability to delay physical actions once started.
For example, a driver approaching an intersection when the light is green starts accelerating. Midway, the light changes to amber and the driver must stop accelerating and start braking.

Width of the Field of Vision
The amount of information absorbed from the periphery of the surroundings, when looking straight ahead.
For example, a driver fails to notice a pedestrian that has started to cross the road on a pedestrian crosswalk. The pedestrian appeared in the right-hand side of the field of vision and since the driver was looking ahead and because of his narrow field of vision, the driver didn't notice the pedestrian.

Reaction Time
The speed of perceiving an object and responding to it.
For example, applying the brakes after observing the tail lights of the car in front turning red.

Focus
The ability to sort different visual and auditory stimuli, in order to prioritise driving actions.
For example, paying attention to what is happening on the road ahead and being able to focus on keeping a safe distance from the vehicle in front, rather than watching a group of people on the pavement.