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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Page xi
... Reduce Safety / 290 Summary of Human Behavior Feedback Effects / 293 Models of Driver Behavior / 295 Conclusions / 306 References / 306 12. HOW YOU CAN REDUCE YOUR RISK / 310 Introduction / 310 Average Behavior Generates Average Crash ...
... Reduce Safety / 290 Summary of Human Behavior Feedback Effects / 293 Models of Driver Behavior / 295 Conclusions / 306 References / 306 12. HOW YOU CAN REDUCE YOUR RISK / 310 Introduction / 310 Average Behavior Generates Average Crash ...
Page xiii
... reduce their severity - form the subject of this book . Traffic crashes are perhaps the number one public health problem in the United States and in other motorized societies ; more preretirement years of life are lost due to traffic ...
... reduce their severity - form the subject of this book . Traffic crashes are perhaps the number one public health problem in the United States and in other motorized societies ; more preretirement years of life are lost due to traffic ...
Page 25
... reduce the possibility of such potentially confounding effects , the following approach was adopted , The approach will be explained in terms of male car drivers . First , fatality risk for 25 - year - old EFFECTS OF SEX AND AGE 25.
... reduce the possibility of such potentially confounding effects , the following approach was adopted , The approach will be explained in terms of male car drivers . First , fatality risk for 25 - year - old EFFECTS OF SEX AND AGE 25.
Page 42
... reduction in driving with increasing age . For every one of a large number of measures of crash involvement examined ... reduced mobility than of reduced safety . REFERENCES Baker , S.P. Motor vehicle occupant deaths in young children ...
... reduction in driving with increasing age . For every one of a large number of measures of crash involvement examined ... reduced mobility than of reduced safety . REFERENCES Baker , S.P. Motor vehicle occupant deaths in young children ...
Page 53
... reduction in fatalities from elimination of ejection . ejected in a crash is three to four times as likely to be killed as an occupant not ejected in a similar crash . Close to a quarter of fatalities for each seating position are ...
... reduction in fatalities from elimination of ejection . ejected in a crash is three to four times as likely to be killed as an occupant not ejected in a similar crash . Close to a quarter of fatalities for each seating position are ...
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