Emergency braking training for motorcyclists: instructors’ preferences and new technologies application in a perception-action task

The objectives of this study are twofold: to collect the preferences and requirements of a sample of instructors to teach the most frequent emergency manoeuvre; (ii) to develop a method by reproducing a real emergency braking scenario with perception-action components capable of identifying with data from an instrumented vehicle the difference between the use of brakes by experts versus less skilled riders. The work highlighted the need to understand the behaviour of the riders in emergency manoeuvres, and specifically braking, to define strategies based on new technologies that increase their safety. The study presented has set the first two components with a well-defined emergency braking task coupling perception and action and with a tool to provide visual feedback of the performance.