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Driving Simulation in the Clinic: Testing Visual Exploratory Behavior in Daily Life Activities in Patients with Visual Field Defects
Published on: September 18, 2012
[Examination of fitness to drive]
1Abteilung Forensische Psychiatrie der Universitären Psychiatrischen Kliniken, Basel. konstanze.roemer@upkbs.ch
Abstract:
Driving a car in public traffic requires a high performance that is often underestimated owing to daily habit. Fitness to drive can be impaired temporary or permanently because of taking substances declining the performance and because of various somatic diseases and psychic disorders. To check the fitness to drive is the responsibility of medical examination in terms of road traffic. This is supposed to be an individual examination corresponding to acknowledged guidelines by an experienced expert in order to keep away dangerous drivers from road traffic but not to reduce excessively the personal freedom of those drivers, who do not endanger road traffic considerably.
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