There are many drivers who feel right A pillar of Japanese right-hand-drive car preventing visibility on turning right or left at intersection. On the other hand, there is a report that almost pedestrian accident is caused by the delay of finding pedestrian by drivers and this is found by drivers’ eye movement. Thus, we developed the evaluation method of quantification using drivers’ eye moveme...

Goel, A., Kumar, P., 2014. A review of fundamental drivers governing the emissions, dispersion and exposure to vehicle-emitted nanoparticles at signalised traffic intersections. Atmospheric Environment 97, 316–331. Online link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231014006311 A review of fundamental drivers governing the emissions, dispersion and exposure to vehicle-emitted na...

The AGV (automated guided vehicle) was introduced in UK in 1953 for transporting. But nowadays, due to their high efficiency, flexibility, reliability, safety and system scalability, they are used in various application in industries. In brief, the AGV robot is a system which typically made up of vehicle chassis, embedded controller, motors, drivers, navigation and collision avoidance sensors, ...

Study of traffic flow dynamics has attracted considerable attention for decades. One way to thoroughly understand traffic flow is to study how each vehicle in traffic interacts with each other, through drivers’ acceleration/deceleration decisions. Such decisions are strongly influenced by reaction delays of drivers, which arise naturally due to drivers’ physiology, perception, and motor program...

This study assessed age-related and gender differences in the relative contribution of fragility and crash over-representation to serious injuries per crash-involved driver in Western Australia. Police-reported crashes for the period 1998-2003 were extracted from the Western Australian Road Injury Database. For each passenger vehicle driver age and gender group, serious injuries per crash-invol...

Introduction The quality of blood ethanol concentration (BEC) determination is important because of its legal ramifications. Measurement uncertainty provides quantitative information about the quality and reliability of test results. In this study, we aim to calculate the measurement uncertainty for the ethanol test in our laboratory measured with a Synchron Systems Ethanol assay kit by employi...

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We evaluated naturalistic driving in 65 drivers with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) before and after positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy and in 43 comparison drivers. Driving performance metrics included speed (mean, variability), and lateral, and longitudinal acceleration (g's). Driver state measures included sleepiness and attention to the driving task based on sampled trigger and baseline ...

Background: Traffic noise is one of the major sources of environmental pollution that can cause permanent or temporary loss of hearing in drivers. The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of hearing loss among professional long-distance drivers in Bandar Abbas freight terminal. Methods: One thousand long distance occupational drivers in Bandar Abbas freight terminal not certifie...

Significant progress has been made on addressing critical issues for inertial fusion energy (IFE) chambers for heavy-ion, laser and Z-pinch drivers. A variety of chamber concepts are being investigated including drywall (currently favored for laser IFE), wetted-wall (applicable to both laser and ion drivers), and thickliquid-wall (favored by heavy ion and z-pinch drivers). Recent progress and r...