Staging simulated accidents

Observations on pedestrian pre-crash reactions during simulated accidents.

Pedestrian protection systems, both active and passive systems, are being introduced in the EU and Japan to comply with regulatory requirements. Their designs are specific and, in general, reflect an accident scenario of the pedestrian being struck on the side by a vehicle traveling at a maximum travel speed of 40 kph. The present study is an effort to quantify the effects of pedestrian reactio...

[The behavior of the cervical vertebrae in simulated traffic accidents].

Driving with Intuition: A Preregistered Study about the EEG Anticipation of Simulated Random Car Accidents

The study of neural pre-stimulus or "anticipatory" activity opened a new window for understanding how the brain actively constructs the forthcoming reality. Usually, experimental paradigms designed to study anticipatory activity make use of stimuli. The purpose of the present study is to expand the study of neural anticipatory activity upon the temporal occurrence of dichotomic, statistically u...

Following Strategies Reduces Accidents, but Makes Outcomes Worse: Evidence from Simulated Treefrog Mating Scenarios

Accidental matings happen in real environments where females end up with males they did not choose. In this paper, we investigate the frequency and changes in mated male fitness in accidental matings specifically in the context of the female choice of the gray treefrogs hyla versicolor based on the best-of-n and minthresh strategy, which are both hypothesized to be widely used in nature. Theore...

Simulated driving performance coupled with driver behaviour can predict the risk of sleepiness-related car accidents.

Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) is associated with the risk of sleepiness-related car accidents and worse driving simulator performances. Nevertheless, driving simulator studies failed to predict the real-world accident risk. Two-thirds of patients with OSAS will never experience a car crash, so that restricting their driving licence because of an OSAS diagnosis is not feasible.