There is a growing population of older people around the world and drivers showing parallel increase. According to 2012 figures UK Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency there are more than 15 million with driving license aged over 60; 1 these 80. A questionnaire survey compared younger (n=903) supplementary interviews ≥ 65 years (n=15) were conducted. The covered: musculoskeletal symptoms, vehicle se...

PURPOSE Adolescent drivers are at elevated crash risk due to distracted driving behavior (DDB). Understanding parental and peer influences on adolescent DDB may aid future efforts to decrease crash risk. We examined the influence of risk perception, sensation seeking, as well as descriptive and injunctive social norms on adolescent DDB using the theory of normative social behavior. METHODS 40...

OBJECTIVE Early adolescents are using cell phones with increasing frequency. Cell phones are known to distract motor vehicle drivers to the point that their safety is jeopardized, but it is unclear if cell phones might also distract child pedestrians. This study was designed to examine the influence of talking on a cell phone for pediatric pedestrian injury risk. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS Seve...

The impact of automated vehicles (AV) on pedestrians’ crossing behavior has been the topic some recent studies, but findings are still scarce and inconclusive. aim this study is to determine whether drivers’ presence apparent attentiveness in a vehicle influences behavior, perceived behavioral control, risk, controlled environment, using Head-mounted Display an immersive Virtual Reality study. ...

This study investigated how system failures influenced drivers’ reliance on Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC). A medium-fidelity driving simulator was used to evaluate the effect of driving condition (traffic, rain) and automation (manual control, ACC) on headway maintenance and brake response. In conditions of rain, the signal continuity of the ACC sensors was degraded and in conditions of heavy t...

Distracted driving (driving while performing a secondary task) is the cause of many collisions. Although the research has stressed the deleterious effects of distraction, there may be situations where distraction improves driving performance. Boredom is associated with collision risk, and it is possible that some types of secondary task may combat boredom on simple monotonous drives. In this st...

Studies on driver distraction aim to identify features extracted from various sensory signals that can be used to distinguish between normal and distracted driving behaviors. A major challenge in these studies is to determine whether the observed behaviors are associated with the primary driving tasks (checking mirrors, monitoring speed, changing lines) or secondary tasks that deviate the atten...

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