Much of the Human Factors research into vehicle automation has focused on driver responses to critical scenarios where a crash might occur. However, there is less knowledge about the effects of vehicle automation on drivers' behaviour during non-critical take-over situations, such as driver-initiated lane-changing or overtaking. The current driving simulator study, conducted as part of the EC-f...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of our study was to better characterize and evaluate drunk driving for governmental reference in order to further reduce alcohol-impaired driving. METHOD This article reports the characteristics of 1226 alcohol-positive drivers with blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) at or over the legal limit of 0.20 mg/mL involved in nonfatal traffic accidents in Shanghai, China, from...

OBJECTIVES To determine the epidemiology and the underlying pathological conditions of natural deaths among motor vehicle drivers. Sudden death while driving may cause damage to properties, other vehicles or road users. Although the Medical Commission on Accident Prevention recommended restrictions to drivers at risk of sudden death due to their medical conditions, these restrictions are useles...

This paper examines various control locations in heavy mining vehicles. Three trucks have been tested on a skid pad in both clockwise and anticlockwise directions. The skid lengths were measured after each trial. The primary focus of the study was the positioning of various controls and their relevance to various skid lengths. Some additional measures such as NASA-TLX scales were also used to m...

The Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI) provides vehicle-based tools that could assist drivers in reacting both more rapidly and effectively to a range of external stimuli. Intelligent or adaptive cruise control systems (ICC or ACC), for example, attempt to assist drivers in better maintaining a safe headway under normal driving conditions. In addition, automatic braking systems may provide ad...

Objective: To reexamine and refine estimates for alcohol-related relative risk of driver involvement in fatal crashes by age and sex as a function of B AC using recent data. Methods: Logistic regression was used to estimate age/sex specific relative risk of fatal crash involvement as a function of the BAC of fatally injured and surviving drivers by combining crash data from the Fatality Analysi...

in recent research on modelling road collisions very little attention has been paid  to rear-end chain reaction collisions, which is characterized by more than two vehicles involved in a collision at the same time. the core aim of the present research is to develop a methodology to estimate such potential collision probabilities based on a proactive perspective, where deceleration rate to avoid...

Low frequency (4 to 6 Hz) cyclic motions, like those caused by a vehicle’s tires hitting the road, can put the human body into resonance. Just one hour of seated vibration exposure can cause muscle fatigue, weaken the soft tissue and make a worker more susceptible to back injury. Truck drivers, agricultural machinery operators, traveling sales representatives, subway operators, tractor drivers ...

This study was designed to compare estimates from two quasi-induced exposure methods of the effects of driver- and vehicle-related conditions on the risk of causing a road crash for drivers of vehicles with four or more wheels. From the Spanish register of road crashes with victims, the authors selected, for 1993-2002, all 755,329 drivers of >or=4-wheeled vehicles involved in single-vehicle cra...