Car drivers appear to reduce their driving speed in high task demand situations. Summala's [Safety Sci. 22 (1996) 103±117]; [in: J.A. Rothengatter, & E. Carbonell Vaya (Eds.), Trac and Transport Psychology: Theory and Application, Pergamon, Oxford, 1997, pp. 41±52] model of behavioural adaptation (MBA) also assumes that drivers increase speed in low task demand situations or attend to addition...

Driving a car in daily life involves multiple tasks. One important task for safe driving is carfollowing, the interference of which causes rear-end collisions: the most common type of car accident. Recent reports have described that car-following is hindered even by handsfree mobile telephones. We conducted functional MRI with 18 normal volunteers to investigate brain activity changes that occu...

A rather simple car driving simulator was created based on the available open source engine TORCS and used to analyze the basic features of human behavior in car driving within the car-following and free-driving setups. Four drivers with different skill in driving real cars participated in these experiments. They were instructed to driver a virtual car without overtaking the lead car driven by ...

Cars have changed from pure transportation devices to fully interactive, voice-based systems. While voice interaction in the car has previously required on-board processing, the growing speed and ubiquity of wireless technologies now enable interaction with a distant source. Will the perceived source of the information influence driver safety, responses to the information, and attitudes toward ...

Abstract Using a didactical car-driving metaphor, this paper deals with a proactive way of ‘driving’ projects with high uncertainty. The centrality of problem complexity and problem uncertainty are demonstrated, the mapping of these to human cognition is reviewed, and the car-driving metaphor as ‘driving’ project management is developed. The MadPRYX ‘suite’ develops didactic car-driving models ...

background: the aim of this study was investigate drinking, driving, and socio-behavioral factors among university students in low and middle income and emerging economy countries. methods: using anonymous questionnaires, data were collected from 18476 university students, of which 15151 (82.0%) were drivers of a car or motorcycle (41.3% men and 58.7% women), with a mean age of 20.7 years (sd=2...

The nuclear orphan receptor CAR is active in the absence of ligand with the unique capability to be further regulated by activators. A number of these activators, including phenobarbital, do not directly bind to the receptor. Considered a xenobiotic sensing receptor, CAR transcriptionally modifies the expression of genes involved in the metabolism and elimination of xenobiotics and steroids in ...