Traffic Safety and the DriverExamines deaths, injuries, and property damage from traffic crashes. Evans (research scientist, General Motors Research Labs, Warren, Michigan) applies the methods of science to illuminate the characteristics of these problems--their origin and nature as well as their severity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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... distance of travel should , to the extent that is practicable , be conceived of as variables defined without regard to units of measurement , rather than thought of as , for example , fatalities per hundred million miles of travel . The ...
... distance of travel should , to the extent that is practicable , be conceived of as variables defined without regard to units of measurement , rather than thought of as , for example , fatalities per hundred million miles of travel . The ...
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... distance of travel , and find that only a small difference remains between the male and female rates . This provides a measure of the rate per unit distance of driving , but not per unit of driving under identical driving conditions ...
... distance of travel , and find that only a small difference remains between the male and female rates . This provides a measure of the rate per unit distance of driving , but not per unit of driving under identical driving conditions ...
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... distance of travel , this will be stated explicitly , and all inferences will apply explicitly only to crashes per unit distance of travel . Poisson Distribution Probability , statistics , and mathematics are kept to a minimum in this ...
... distance of travel , this will be stated explicitly , and all inferences will apply explicitly only to crashes per unit distance of travel . Poisson Distribution Probability , statistics , and mathematics are kept to a minimum in this ...
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... distance of travel introduced for the next graph . The general pattern in Fig . 2-7 differs from that in Fig . 2-6 ... distance of travel . This rate is estimated by dividing driver fatalities by the product of the number of licensed ...
... distance of travel introduced for the next graph . The general pattern in Fig . 2-7 differs from that in Fig . 2-6 ... distance of travel . This rate is estimated by dividing driver fatalities by the product of the number of licensed ...
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... distance of travel for male drivers aged 65-69 , aged 35-39 , and aged 16 is , respectively , 14 500 km , 31 400 km , and 2 200 km . INVOLVEMENT RATES IN SEVERE CRASHES Increases of various crash measures with age like those in Figs 2-7 ...
... distance of travel for male drivers aged 65-69 , aged 35-39 , and aged 16 is , respectively , 14 500 km , 31 400 km , and 2 200 km . INVOLVEMENT RATES IN SEVERE CRASHES Increases of various crash measures with age like those in Figs 2-7 ...
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