results nearly 60% of the responders had witnessed more than two emergencies in the previous six months and 55% had actively participated in helping the injured person. the nature of the help was mainly by calling for an ambulance (41.5%), transporting the injured (19.7%) and consoling the victim (14.9%). majority (78.1%) of the responders informed that they had run to the victim (42.4%) or had...

Introduction: Sleepiness may predispose drivers to road traffic accidents. Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome is the most common medical cause of sleepiness. Hence increased neck circumference (NC) and obesity are known as obstructive sleep apnea syndrome risk factors. This study was conducted to assess OSAS role in occurrence of road traffic accidents in sleeping drivers of commercial heavy veh...

OBJECTIVES To obtain detailed information on patterns of driver cell phone use, including how often drivers talk and text, the extent to which they use hands-free devices, and knowledge of and reaction to state cell phone laws. METHODS Telephone surveys were conducted with 1219 drivers in the 48 contiguous U.S. states and the District of Columbia, using random samples of landline and cell pho...

Web browsers do not yet provide Web programs with the same safe, convenient access to local devices that operating systems provide to native programs. As a result, Web programmers must either wait for the slowly evolving HTML standard to add support for the device classes they want to use, or they must use difficult to deploy browser plug-ins to add the access they need. This paper describes Ma...

In 2001, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened a public docket requesting comments from the public regarding headlamp glare. Most responses received have been complaints. NHTSA initiated research to address these complaints and to determine causes and effects of headlamp glare. In 2005, Congress authorized NHTSA to "conduct a study on the risks associated with glare ...

1. Challenge HERE Technologies, a digital location technology company that provides location-based services to various verticals, including Automotive, has been considering different means of acquiring consent in an in-vehicle context. Dependent on the use case, regulations such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may require HERE to obtain consent from drivers before collecting their ...

This paper aims to investigate a new and intricate behavior of immediate follower during the lane change of leader vehicle. Accordingly, the mentioned situation is a transient state in car following behavior during which the follower vehicle considerably deviates from conventional car following models for a limited time, which is a complex state including lateral and longitudinal movement simul...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the relative risk of being responsible for a fatal crash while driving under the influence of cannabis, the prevalence of such drivers within the driving population, and the corresponding share of fatal crashes. DESIGN Population based case-control study. PARTICIPANTS 10 748 drivers, with known drug and alcohol concentrations, who were involved in fatal crashes in Fra...