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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"car crashes"”.
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Measurement Error Adjustment in the Offset Variable of a Poisson Model
… main cause of death among teenagers in the US. Car crashes are the leading cause of death among teenagers. The Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) program is one effective policy for reducing the number of teenage car crashes. Our study focuses on how the GDL program adopted by the state of …
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Safety verification and control for collision avoidance at road intersections
Car crashes cause a large number of fatalities and injuries, with about 33,000 people killed and 2.3 million injured in the United States every year. To prevent car crashes, the government and automotive companies have taken initiatives to develop and deploy communications among vehicles and …
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How Cars Took Over America
… goes. The average American household has 1.88 cars. Songs like “Life is a Highway,” “On the Road Again,” and countless others celebrate the car. Americans have accepted endless sprawl, hours stuck in traffic, car crashes, and lung disease because they loved cars from the beginning. Or did they? …
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Comparison of passive cervical spine flexion in children and adults
… most frequent injury sustained by children in car crashes, and the neck plays a key role in governing head kinematics during the crash. Pediatric anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs) are used to assess the risk of head injury, yet the pediatric ATD neck is a size-scaled model of the adult ATD …
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Novel In-Vehicle Gesture Interactions: Design and Evaluation of Auditory Displays and Menu Generation Interfaces
Driver distraction is a major contributor to car crashes, and visual distraction caused by using invehicle infotainment systems (IVIS) degrades driving performance and increases crash risk. Air gesture interfaces were developed to mitigate for driver distraction, and using auditory displays showed …
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Immediate Aftercare Program for Survivors and Families of Homicide Victims: The Case of Cobb County Government
… deaths such as suicides or non-criminal related car crashes. Cobb County implemented a specialized service delivery program in October of 2009 through the Victim Witness Assistance Unit of the District Attorney’s Office. The program established a case management system with services provided by a …
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Identifying and Quantifying Factors Affecting Injury Severity of Young Drivers Involved in Single Vehicle Crashes Occurring within Curves on Rural Two-Lane Roads in Louisiana
… young driver injury levels for single vehicle crashes occurring within curves on rural two-lane roads in Louisiana. Although the number of fatal and serious injury crashes involving young drivers is declining, young drivers are still overrepresented in crashes and crashes are still the leading …
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The Application of Intelligent Tires and Model Base Estimation Algorithms in Tire-road Contact Characterization
… are the most important factors affecting car crashes. Due to its direct relation to vehicle stability, accurate estimation of tire-road characteristics is of interest to all vehicle and tire companies. Many studies have been conducted in this field and researchers have used different tools …
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Geo-Locating Tweets with Latent Location Information
… about water main breaks, sinkholes, potholes, car crashes, and car accidents), covering 17 months. We found that up to 91.1% of tweets have at least one type of location information (geo-coordinates or geonames), or LIWs. We also demonstrated that in most cases adding LIWs helps geo-locate …
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Localized deformation in soft solids around spherical cavities
… of rates, resulting in damage. Sport injuries, car crashes, traumatic brain injury, and ballistic impacts can produce strain rates from 10−10^5 1/s. The parameters governing failure in these soft solids (moduli < 1 MPa) are challenging to quantify, requiring modifications or defying the use of …
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The Effect of Lane Departure Warning Systems on Cross-Centerline Crashes
Cross-centerline crashes occur rarely in the United States but are especially severe. This type of crash is characterized by one vehicle departing over a centerline and encountering a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction. In recent years, automakers have started developing and implementing …
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Essays on the economics of population health
… evidence shows that the number of fatal car crashes also increases in counties with a higher share of losers. These two effects are present in the 2016 elections and absent in previous years.
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Communication technologies and data processing for safety
… or night, and there is always the possibility of car crashes or other transportation accidents on the journey to the disaster scene or to hospitals. Others examples are the industrial workplaces, which are inherently places with a high concentration of heavy machinery, fast handling equipments, …