Drivers are held responsible for the vast majority of traffic crashes. Although most errors causing these accidents involuntary, a significant number them caused by irresponsible driving behaviors, which must be utterly preventable. Irresponsible driving, on other hand, is often associated with driver stress and impatience they show while driving. In this paper, we consider factors that cause d...

synthetic aperture radar (sar), which has been widely used for earth remote sensing, provides high resolution, day-and-night and weather-independent images for a multitude of applications. design of sar sensors has had some considerations, associated to sar systems issues (microwave propagation, antenna, orbit design and etc.). altitude and attitude errors of sar sensor have a direct effect on ...

traffic events account for about 1,200,000 deaths and more than 50 million injuries annually across the world. research shows that male drivers make up the majority of those who sustain injuries in car accidents. the present research aims to compare psychological factors affecting driving-related crashes of male and female drivers. accordingly, the sample data is collected from 208 crash-involv...

Traffic safety related to motorcycle riding constitutes a growing issue all over the world. This is notably the case in France, where the important progress recently obtained toward a safer driving by car didn't prove to be so much effective for motorcycling. The present study has the purpose to give some cues on the reasons why, by characterizing the specificities of accident scenarios involvi...

The reliability of file systems depends in part on how well they propagate errors. We develop a static analysis technique, EDP, that analyzes how file systems and storage device drivers propagate error codes. Running our EDP analysis on all file systems and 3 major storage device drivers in Linux 2.6, we find that errors are often incorrectly propagated; 1153 calls (13%) drop an error code with...

Device drivers form the glue code between an operating system and its devices. In Linux, device drivers are highly reliant for this on the various Linux internal libraries, which encapsulate generic functionalities related to the various busses and device types. In recent years, these libraries have been evolving rapidly, to address new requirements and improve performance. In response to each ...