This article reports the findings of an experiment designed to evaluate the effect of four questionnaire formats on the willingness of drivers convicted of drunken driving to admit to this socially undesirable behaviour. Four samples of convicted drunk drivers each received a different version of a mail questionnaire about driving behaviour and attitudes. Two versions of the questionnaire inclu...

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are playing an increasing and interesting role in the recent wireless communication. The complexity and the performance of the systems are driving the different studies and researches. Lattices Reduction techniques bring more resources to investigate the complexity and performances of such systems. In this paper, we look to modify a fixed complexity...

INTRODUCTION Drink driving incidents in the Australian community continue to be a major road safety problem resulting in a third of all fatalities. Drink driving prevalence remains high; with the rate of Australians who self report drink driving remaining at 11%-12.1% [1,2]. The focus of research in the area to date has been with recidivist offenders who have a higher probability of reoffending...

Driving while impaired (DWI) is a grave and persistent high-risk behavior. Previous work demonstrated that DWI recidivists had attenuated cortisol reactivity compared to non-DWI drivers. This suggests that cortisol is a neurobiological marker of high-risk driving. The present study tested the hypothesis that this initial finding would extend to first-time DWI (fDWI) offenders compared to non-DW...

Context Regulation of the availability of alcohol has been found to be a very important factor in alcohol impaired driving, as well as other alcohol related problems. Such factors as minimum purchase age for alcohol, the density and location of alcohol outlets, and alcohol service and sales practices have all been found to be related to impaired driving. Recent research has added to knowledge a...

In this paper, the problem of comfort and handling improvements of a ground vehicle is treated through the joint control of the suspension and braking systems. Two H∞ gain-scheduled controllers are synthesized to achieve, attitude and yaw performances according to the driving situation, observed through of a simple vehicle monitor. The proposed strategy tackles the nonlinear tire braking force ...

The insertion of data in personal devices (e.g. mobile phones, GPS devices) tends to distract us from the primary task (e.g driving) that we are executing because of the necessity of deviating our visual attention to a secondary task. In this work we have tested the benefits introduced by the haptic feedback as a facility for a very common secondary tasks, namely the insertion of strings in an ...

CyberCars are road vehicles with fully automated driving capabilities. A fleet of such vehicles forms a Cybernetic Transportation System, for passengers or goods, on a network of roads with on-demand and door-to-door capability. This paper presents a framework for the overall evaluation of the performance of different technologies under development during the project. The evaluation plan descri...