Anti-lock braking system (ABS) is an automobile safety system for vehicles which will allow controlling wheels of vehicle and providing safety contact on road surface according to driver braking input, avoiding uncontrolled skidding and also preventing the wheels from locking up. The main task of ABS is to press and release the brakes almost 15 times a second, so process of stopping the vehicle...

Navigating a new route during automobile driving uses the driver's cognitive resources and has the potential to impair driving ability in people with Parkinson's disease (PD). Our aim was to assess navigation and safety errors during a route following task (RFT) in drivers with the illness. Seventy-seven subjects with mild-moderate PD (median Hoehn-Yahr stage = 2.0) and 152 neurologically norma...

The rapid increase in the elderly population has caused serial issues in Japan. Especially, elderly people (over 65 years old) account for more road fatalities than any other age group (Fig.1). Figure 2 shows the changes in the number of drivers who have a drivers’ license. This figure shows the number of elderly drivers is increasing and surpassed that of young divers1. One of the issues is au...

OVERVIEW: Traffic control systems for automobile traffic are being set up that allow more advanced traffic signal control according to traffic conditions and provide drivers with the real-time traffic information that they need to make their own driving decisions. The traffic information required by the driver includes traffic regulations, degree of congestion, parking space availability and so...

In automobile insurance, it is useful to achieve a priori ratemaking by resorting to generalized linear models, and here the Poisson regression model constitutes the most widely accepted basis. However, insurance companies distinguish between claims with or without bodily injuries, or claims with full or partial liability of the insured driver. This paper examines an a priori ratemaking procedu...

This research aims to quantify driver ride comfort due changes in damper characteristics between mode and sport mode, considering the vehicle’s inertial behavior. The of riding an automobile has been evaluated recent years on basis a subjective sensory evaluation given by driver. However, reflecting driving sensations design work improve is abstract nature difficult express theoretically. There...

Walking being the oldest form of urban transport, and until the advent of major transformationsin transport technology in the nineteenth century, most cities were structured in ways that supported walkability.Today, there is a change in transportation which emphasizes, the traditional pedestrian paths which are increasinglybecoming non-regulated spaces when compared to the urban spaces for auto...

A neurofuzzy methodology is presented for motion planning in semi-autonomous mobile robots. The robotic automata considered are devices whose main feature is incremental learning from a human instructor. Fuzzy descriptions are used for the robot to acquire a repertoire of behaviors from an instructor which it may subsequently refine and recall using neural adaptive techniques. The robot is endo...

Instructions given to novices learning certain tasks of applied navigation often suggest that gazedirection (“line of sight”) should preview the path the operator desires to take (e.g., Bondurant & Blakemore, 1998; Motorcycle Safety Foundation, 1992; Morris, 1990), presumably because looking behavior can ultimately affect steering control through hand, arm, or leg movements that could lead to u...