A crash can be thought of as a system composed of several elements, including drivers and vehicles that continually interact with each other, while a crash database is a record of the errors attributable to different components of the crash system. Learning from mistakes (errors) is important if crashes are to be avoided. With more than one hundred variables related to the drivers, occupants, c...

BACKGROUND The use of a cell phone or communication device while driving is illegal in many jurisdictions, yet evidence evaluating the crash risk associated with cell phone use in naturalistic settings is limited. This article aims to determine whether cell phone use while driving increases motor vehicle crash culpability. Method Drivers involved in crashes where police reported cell phone use ...

Crash-only programs crash safely and recover quickly. There is only one way to stop such software—by crashing it—and only one way to bring it up—by initiating recovery. Crash-only systems are built from crash-only components, and the use of transparent component-level retries hides intra-system component crashes from end users. In this paper we advocate a crash-only design for Internet systems,...