We also studied the influence of different environments and driver characteristics, introducing visual status (i.e., visual acuity and contrast sensitivity) as one of them. Seventy-five drivers were evaluated in a simulator study involving two test sessions under baseline and texting conditions. A ...
Problems – looking for route and/or traffic signs • Unfamiliar situations such as staring at an automobile crash Policy Statements The Policy Statement by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) states: "The primary responsibility of the driver is to operate a motor vehicle ...
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Zendrive dug deep into our data set of 10-billion miles of driver behavior data and pulled out a three month sample of 570-million trips, where 3.1-million people drove 5.6-billion miles around the U.S. between December 2016 and February 2017. ...
Driver behaviour monitoring is a broad area of research, with a variety of methods and approaches. Distraction from the use of electronic devices, such as smartphones for texting or talking on the phone, is one of the leading causes of vehicle accidents. With the increasing number of sensors ...
Zendrive dug deep into our data set of 10-billion miles of driver behavior data and pulled out a three month sample of 570-million trips, where 3.1-million people drove 5.6-billion miles around the U.S. between December 2016 and February 2017. ...
Although this study tested driver age and other driver demographic variables in the model, they were not retained in the parsimonious model either because they did not improve the overall model fit or they were not statistically significant in the model—more research with a large sample size is...
In this section, we consider the public policy implications of the estimates obtained in the prior section. In the spirit of L&P, we begin assessing the negative externalities of distracted driving by calculating the number of traffic fatalities that would have been avoided if a driver had not ...