Car use: lust and must. Instrumental, symbolic and affective motives for car use

The use of affective interaction design in car user interfaces.

Recent developments in the car industry have put Human Machine Interfaces under the spotlight. Developing gratifying human-car interactions has become one of the more prominent areas that car manufacturers want to invest in. However, concepts like emotional design remain foreign to the industry. In this study 12 experts on the field of automobile HMI design were interviewed in order to investig...

Car Use Behavioral Study for Commuting Trips: Parents’ Work Trips and Children’s School Trips

Negative consequences of car use along with deficiencies for investment in environmental friendly modes, have driven authorities to search for soft measure in order to encourage people for modal shift. The main objective of this study is to propose a model which describes car use behavior on parents’ work trips and how this relates to mode choice regarding their children’s school trips. A quest...

Explaining Trends in Car Use

Children's car-restraints: use and parental attitudes.

An analysis of the attitudes of 600 parents towards children's car-restraints together with their use is presented. Only 47% of infants under 9 months of age and 26% of children under 15 years of age were always appropriately restrained. Children under 4 were more likely to be restrained than older children and previous involvement in a road-traffic accident led to increased use of restraint.

Marijuana use and car crash injury.

AIMS To investigate the relationship between marijuana use prior to driving, habitual marijuana use and car crash injury. DESIGN AND SETTING Population based case-control study in Auckland, New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS Case vehicles were all cars involved in crashes in which at least one occupant was hospitalized or killed anywhere in the Auckland region, and control vehicles were a random sam...