Remote vision for steering unmanned vehicles is generally facilitated by on-board cameras. Due to limited bandwidth data-links, a trade-off exists between spatial and temporal image resolution.
In the present experiment, objective performance of military driving instructors was measured on a standardized task-battery in a fixed-base driving simulator. The results showed that the optimum choice of spatial and temporal resolution is task specific. The lack of an interaction between both the factors pleads for some provision for the operator to modify these parameters when switching between tasks.
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