Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan may experience driving-related challenges postdeployment, including more at-fault crashes. Causes may include defensive driving tactics learned for combat zones and consequences of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Tailoring driver interventions to meet Veterans' needs requires an understanding of their driving perceptions...

smooth merging, and passing. The Super Smart Vehicle System studies, conducted from 1990 to 1992 by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry, proposed cooperative driving using intervehicle communication to make traffic safe and efficient. Studies of intervehicle communication had already started in the early ’80s at JSK (the Association of Electronic Technology for Automobile ...

The driving behavior, road, and traffic conditions greatly affect the gasoline consumption of an automobile. We believe that accurate prediction of gasoline usage as a function of the above can be used to obtain optimal driving behavior, for given road and traffic conditions, to reduce gasoline consumption. This results in great dollar savings and also reduces the harmful effects of gasoline us...

Stereotype threat, or the belief that one may be the target of demeaning stereotypes, leads to performance disruptions in a variety of domains. Two experiments conducted in a driving simulator demonstrate that stereotype threat also disrupts control of an automobile. Women who were reminded of the stereotype that females are poor drivers were more than twice as likely to collide with jaywalking...

Driving is a daily activity throughout the world. However, driving at highways or city requires significant cognitive and motor skills such as visual-spatial ability, memory and information processing and rapid reaction. Recent studies show lack of driver alertness to be a major cause of automobile accidents on roadways across the world. The perceived state of alertness is a complex physiologic...

Customers expect a modern automobile to be comfortable and safe. The spring damper system in the wheel suspension is the most important component to ensure both. During the design process of the spring damping a physically based conflict between these two main functions arises. For passive systems improving the driving comfort will always worsen the driving safety and vice versa. We developed a...

Partially automated driving is expected to increase traffic efficiency. However, automation causes human factors concerns. One concern is the reduced operability during transitions between automation level, e.g. when failures occur. These concerns ask for a more justifiable implementation of automation for automobile appliances. As a first step towards applicable solutions for driver support, w...