Influence of Vertical Alignment on Horizontal Curve Perception: Phase I: Examining the Hypothesis
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Abstract
The importance of the driver’s receiving precise visual cues from the road environment cannot be overstated. If the visual cues are confusing or in any way cause the driver to incorrectly assess the approaching road environment, the crash risk of the driver may increase. Of particular concern are the perceptual problems induced by superimposing horizontal and vertical curves. To investigate the effect of overlapping vertical alignment on the perceived horizontal curvature, dynamic and static computer-generated three-dimensional presentations of the driver’s view of a road were created. In Phase I of the experiment, data were collected to test the hypothesis that overlapping crest curves made the horizontal curvature appear sharper and overlapping sag curves made the horizontal curvature appear less sharp. The results of both presentation methods (dynamic and static) were in agreement and showed that the hypothesis was valid. However, the hypothesis was more evident in the case of sag curves, which is a more serious issue with respect to safety. The probability of erroneous perception, as influenced by vertical curves, increases as ( a) the sight distance increases, ( b) the horizontal curve radius increases, and ( c) the length of vertical curve per 1% change in grade decreases. Driver characteristics did not appear to affect the horizontal curve perception.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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