Experiment Research on Influence of Angry Emotion for Driving Behaviors

Considering that there are still no definite conclusions about how angry emotion affects transportation safety,the paper designed an angry emotion induced method by means of a programmable vehicle simulator.The differences of average driving speed,speeding frequency,baking frequency,honking frequency and zebra crossing slowdown frequency between angry and normal emotion were found out.Results showed that angry emotion increased the average driving speed,but its effects on speeding behavior is related with the road conditions.Besides,it increased the honking frequency and decreased the zebra crossing slowdown frequency,while had little effects on baking frequency.Existing traffic accident statistics shows the disadvantages of angry emotions on traffic safety as a whole,however,the conclusions of this research prove its inconsistency when performing a different driving behavior.