Law enforcement discrimination studies are usually qualified by selection concerns regarding which encounters transpire between individuals and police. This paper overcomes these problems by examining automobile crash investigations by a State Police Department. Because officers are dispatched to investigate crashes on the basis of factors unrelated to driver race, these interactions are effect...

This paper reviews the history of automotive technology development and human factors research, largely by decade, since the inception of the automobile. The human factors aspects were classified into primary driving task aspects (controls, displays, and visibility), driver workspace (seating and packaging, vibration, comfort, and climate), driver’s condition (fatigue and impairment), crash inj...

The work deals with the fatigue analysis of automobile drivers by acquiring their physical signals during real world driving task to determine the driver’s relative stress level. The ECG signals were evaluated using two methods one using time domain analysis and second method using frequency domain analysis. In time domain analysis Pan Tomkins method is used for the detection of QRS complex and...

Human figure models are commonly used to facilitate ergonomic assessments of vehicle driver stations and other workplaces. One routine method of workstation assessment is to conduct a suite of ergonomic analyses using a family of boundary manikins, chosen to represent a range of anthropometric extremes on several dimensions. The suitability of the resulting analysis depends both on the methods ...

the car safety is important for sustainable development of contemporary automobile industry, the researches of the automotive active and passive safety have been universal concern and attention, when the vehicle frontal collision occurred, and the steering wheel and rigid steering column is the main components to make the driver be injured.Based on the extensive collection of home and abroad re...

The fact that an increasing number of functions in the automobile are and will be controlled by speech of the driver rises the question whether this speech input may be used to detect a possible alcoholic intoxication of the driver. For that matter a large part of the new Alcohol Language Corpus (ALC) edited by the Bavarian Archive of Speech Signals (BAS) will be used for a broad statistical in...

In the present trend suggestsdriving and navigation support systems are getting importance because it is crucial in supporting drivers in several conditions in automobile industry. It is important for driving support systems to detect the status/activity of driver’s consciousness. Detecting onset of driver fatigue could prevent the accidents caused by drowsy driving. It is proposed to detect / ...

In order to efficiently assist the driver, assistance systems need to be able to tune the offered assistance to the driver’s needs. As the number and variety of assistance systems in the automobile increase, we are increasingly supplied with data from various sensors about the state of the vehicle, the driver and the driving environment. A fusion of the available data can provide the systems wi...