Restricted car-use and perceived accessibility

Family-Friendly Work Practices in Britain: Availability and Perceived Accessibility

Family-Friendly Work Practices in Britain: Availability and Perceived Accessibility Using linked data for British workplaces and employees we find a low base rate of workplacelevel availability for five family-friendly work practices – parental leave, paid leave, job sharing, subsidized child care, and working at home – and a substantially lower rate of individual-level perceived accessibility....

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...

Improving perceived accuracy for in-car media search

Speech recognition technology is prone to mistakes, but this is not the only source of errors that cause speech recognition systems to fail; sometimes the user simply does not utter the command correctly. Usually, user mistakes are not considered when a system is designed and evaluated. This creates a gap between the claimed accuracy of the system and the actual accuracy perceived by the users....