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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"driving experience"”.
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Reading the Road: The Effect of Driving Experience on Hazard Awareness.
… was concerned with examining differences in driving experience on the awareness of hazards and how this experience develops over time, particularly the transition from learner to novice driver. It explored the use of static images to examine traffic images independent of motion judgements …
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Examining the Effect of Driving Experience on Teenage Driving Ability with Secondary Tasks
This research examined the relationship between experience and driving performance with secondary tasks. Data were collected from 42 teenage drivers and their parents using an instrumented vehicle for two one hour test track sessions spaced 12 months apart. For part of the sessions, participants …
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Effects of Different Types of Drinking and Driving PSAs on Persons with Varying Levels of Drinking and Driving Experience
… Effects of Different Types of Drinking and Driving PSAs on Persons with Varying Levels of Drinking and Driving Experience Chairperson: Bryan N. Cochran The potential effectiveness of different types of anti-driving under the influence (DUI) Public Service Announcements (PSAs) was examined in …
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Effects of Different Types of Drinking and Driving PSAs on Persons with Varying Levels of Drinking and Driving Experience
… Effects of Different Types of Drinking and Driving PSAs on Persons with Varying Levels of Drinking and Driving Experience Chairperson: Bryan N. Cochran The potential effectiveness of different types of anti-driving under the influence (DUI) Public Service Announcements (PSAs) was examined in …
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Driver's comfort level in construction zones with reduced transition taper length: case study for Pakistani conditions
… 29%, 30% and 40%. It focused on people having driving experience in Pakistan and US. It was concluded that age was a significant factor for 20% and 30% reduction in the taper length for motorways and for 10% reduction for highways. Driving experience in Pakistan was a significant factor for 30% …
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A Naturalistic Driving Study for Lane Change Detection and Personalization
Driver Assistance and Autonomous Driving features are becoming nearly ubiquitous in new vehicles. The intent of the Driver Assistant features is to assist the driver in making safer decisions. The intent of Autonomous Driving features is to execute vehicle maneuvers, without human intervention, in …
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Preventing texting while driving : a design investigation
… is that people now have the choice to text while driving, an action that now accounts for nearly 25% of all vehicle accidents and results in at least 11 deaths per day. Current methods of preventing texting while driving are either too new to be fully realized or are ineffective due to poor design …
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Essays on transition challenges for alternative propulsion vehicles and transportation systems
… are strongly shaped by cultural norms, personal experience, and social interactions. To capture these factors, I examine important social processes conditioning alternative vehicle diffusion, including the generation of consumer awareness through feedback from driving experience, word of mouth …
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City-Car : optimizing vehicle and urban efficiencies through a shared adaptive platform
… an adaptive shared vehicle that provides a fun driving experience in dense areas. Multiple design iterations of the City-Car were created to operate in a shared vehicle system. The Flex City-Car is a battery-powered dual motored vehicle able to reposition its rear powertrains to occupy a quarter …
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Development and Testing of a Hybrid Vehicle Energy Management Strategy
… response targets while delivering an enjoyable driving experience. Simulation testing shows that the energy management strategy improved fuel economy in most drive cycles with improvements of 8.8% for US06, 9.8% for HWFET, and 0.1% for the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge Cycle. Battery state of charge …
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Analysis of Aggressive Driving Using a Driving Simulator
As aggressive driving mainly caused speed-related crashes, aggressive driving must be prevented to improve road safety by identifying aggressive drivers and understand their characteristics and external factors associated with their behaviours. Thus, it is important to investigate relationships …
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Examining the role of cognition in driving: Comparisons between driver groups and the development of the Maynooth On-Road Driving Assessment
Driving is a complex task which requires the interaction of multiple higher level cognitive skills, each of which can be affected by experience, age, and cognitive impairment. Assessing at-risk drivers can be done via pre-screening tests and on-road measures to identify any decrements in fitness to …
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Automatic Ultrasonic Headway Control for a Scaled Robotic Car
… of errors can be reduced or eliminated from the driving experience by introducing computer control systems into the automotive arena. The purpose of this research was to develop a scale model platform for the rapid prototyping and testing of ITS systems and technologies. Specifically, this body …
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Considerations for the Development of Non-Visual Interfaces for Driving Applications
… done specifically related to those for blind driving. Many automation technologies have been developed for the purpose of assisting and improving the safety of sighted drivers, but to enable a true driving experience without any sense of sight has been an essentially overlooked area of study. …
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An integrated human factors approach to design and evaluation of the driver workspace and interface: Driver perceptions, behaviors, and objective measures
… essential to ensure a healthier and comfortable driving experience in terms of driver perceptions, postures, and interface pressures. Developing more effective methods for driver-side interior design and evaluation, hence, requires thorough investigation of: 1) which perceptual responses are more …
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Driving confidence and in-vehicle telematics : a study of technology adoption patterns of the 50+ driving population
… a wide range of technologies, which aid the driving function through features assisting in safety and service tasks. These technologies are designed to give the operator and passengers added safety control and convenient service amenities- both of which contribute to an overall increase in …
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A Sociological Analysis of the Cartage Truck Driver's Occupation
… truck driver, was developed through personal driving experience. This experience consisted of three and a half years driving straight trucks and tractor trailer trucks for cartage trucking companies in Bowling Green, Kentucky and Cleveland, Ohio. The importance of such a study of a particular …
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Haptic controls in cars for safer driving
… solve real world problems or to enhance present experiences. This thesis focuses on using haptic technology in cars to make the driving experience safer. Modern vehicles carry GPS, music systems, sunroofs and a number of other electronic gadgets. Interaction with these devices while driving often …
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SenSys: A Smartphone-Based Framework for ITS applications
… and services in order to enhance safety and driving experience. GPS, cameras, Bluetooth, inertial sensors and other embedded sensors are used to detect and analyze drivers' behavior and vehicles' motion.</p> <p>The use of smartphones made the data collection process easier because of their …
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