Mythology plays an important part of the role American automobile, less so in terms its primary function that is transportation, more ancillary purpose: metaphorical significance to both owner or operator and onlooking public. Across much 20th century continuing now into third decade 21st century, automobile has undergone many design changes have buttressed significance: become streamlined, gai...

July 2001 39 dinate its own actions with those of other agents. Coordination does not imply cooperation: An effective competitor will coordinate decisions to maximize its advantage against an opponent, such as a company timing a product promotion to undercut a rival. Nor does it imply reciprocation: An agent can coordinate its actions with another agent unaware of its presence, as when an autom...

The large number of automobile accidents due to driver drowsiness is a critical concern of many countries. To solve this problem, numerous methods of countermeasure have been proposed. However, the results were unsatisfactory due to inadequate accuracy of drowsiness detection. In this study, we introduce a new approach, a combination of EEG and NIRS, to detect driver drowsiness. EEG, EOG, ECG a...

This paper assesses the ability of automobile insurance prices to distinguish the 2:1 ratio of men's to women's annual mileage, which is linked to a similar ratio of accident involvement per year. Review of current price classes by driver sex and age, by future mileage, and by past driver record reveals severe limitations to their capacity to assess women's lower mileage exposure to risk of acc...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the clinical characteristics of patients involved in road traffic accidents according to the New Injury Severity Score (NISS). METHODS In this study, medical records of 1,048 patients admitted at three hospitals located in different regions between January and December 2014 were retrospectively reviewed. Only patients who received inpatient treatments covered by autom...

Faced with demographic trends that predicted large increases of older drivers within a relatively short period combined with the realization that screening for driver fitness was largely dependent upon health professionals, principally physicians, in 2004 the Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) initiated measures that sought to achieve better cooperation with the health professio...

There are many kinds of automobile after-sale service spare parts, which are with a complex relationship in replacement and a large time span in models. The management of automobile after-sale service spare parts is a challenge, not only for automobile manufacturer but also for distributor. Therefore, it becomes an important and difficult task for automobile enterprises to do well in the supply...

This paper explores the possibility of combining solid state accelerometers with a low resolution position sensor to provide clean estimates of automobile handwheel position, velocity and acceleration for use in force feedback. Typically determining the acceleration and velocity of the handwheel requires differentiating a position sensor such as an encoder or potentiometer. Unless expensive hig...

Casualties due to motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) include some 40,000 deaths each year in the United States and one million deaths worldwide. One strategy that has been recommended for improving automobile safety is to lower speed limits and enforce them with speed cameras. However, motor vehicles can be hazardous even at low speeds whereas properly protected human beings can survive high-speed cr...

Memory retention of drivers was tested for trafficand traveler-related messages displayed on an in-vehicle information system (IVIS). Three research questions were asked: (a) How does in-vehicle visual message format affect comprehension? (b) How does message format affect memory retention? and (c) What impact does driver age have on recall of in-vehicle visual messages? Nine younger (less than...