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Airbag Safety and the Distance of the Driver From the Steering Wheel

New England Journal of Medicine, 1998
To the Editor: Actuarial data indicate that driver-side airbags reduce the overall risk of death from a car accident by 11 percent,1 but airbag-induced injuries (both fatal and nonfatal) have been ...
Jonathan I. Levy
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Virtual Driver of Hybrid Wheeled Vehicle

Solid State Phenomena, 2011
This paper presents the application of wheeled vehicle based on a hybrid propulsion system. Describes control system structure and communication between different units of propulsion, intermediary devices and the fundamental issues of building such a network.
Gabriel Kost, Andrzej Nierychlok
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Estimation of Driver’s Fatigue Based on Steering Wheel Angle

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011
Driver's fatigue has been verified as a major factor in many traffic accidents. The estimation of driver's vigilance by steering wheel angle is good way because it is a non-invasive method compared with EEG. An adaptive vigilance estimation methodology based on steering wheel angle information is proposed.
Qichang He, Wei Li, Xiumin Fan
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Behind the Wheel: Predictors of Driving Exposure in Older Drivers

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2015
Objectives To explore and deepen understanding of factors influencing driving exposure for older drivers. Design Cross‐sectional. Setting Baseline data on ...
Coxon, Kristy (R12271), Chevalier, Anna, Lo, Serigne, Ivers, Rebecca, Brown, Julie, Keay, Lisa   +5 more
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Driver verification based on handgrip recognition on steering wheel

2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2011
This paper presents a novel driver verification algorithm based on the recognition of handgrip patterns on steering wheel. A pressure sensitive mat mounted on a steering wheel is employed to collect a series of pressure images exerted by the hands of the drivers who intend to start the vehicle.
Ronghua Chen, Mary Fenghua She, Jin Wang 0002, Xiangping Sun, Lingxue Kong   +4 more
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Driver adaptation to haptic shared control of the steering wheel

2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2014
Although the benefits of haptic shared control of the steering wheel have been repeatedly demonstrated, longitudinal studies of how drivers adapt to this kind of system are still lacking. The present study addressed this question by comparing two groups of participants in a driving simulator for an extended time period; one group drove with a shared ...
Franck Mars, Mathieu Deroo, Camilo Charron   +2 more
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Take the wheel: Effects of available modalities on driver intervention

2016 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2016
While automated driving systems will become increasingly capable and common in the future, there will still be instances when human drivers want or need to make corrections to the car's automated driving behavior. We conducted two studies exploring how driving interfaces could be designed to better execute the drivers' intentions.
Brian K. Mok, Mishel Johns, Nikhil Gowda, Srinath Sibi, Wendy Ju   +4 more
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Automobility in flux: More women and older drivers at the wheel [PDF]

DIW Economic Bulletin, 2013
Having barely registered an increase at the beginning of the new millennium, during the economic upturn after 2009, there was significant growth in the mileage by registered motor vehicles in Germany, both in the case of utility vehicles and automobiles. Overall, in 2011, automobiles covered a higher mileage than ever before.
Kunert, Uwe, Radke, Sabine, Chlond, Bastian, Kagerbauer, Martin   +3 more
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The restless mind while driving: drivers’ thoughts behind the wheel

Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2015
Recent research has clearly shown that inattention when driving has an indisputable impact on road safety. "Mind wandering" (MW), an inattentional state caused by a shift in attention from the ongoing task to inner thoughts, is not only frequent in everyday activities but also known to impact performance.
Berthie, Gaëlle, Lemercier, Céline, Paubel, Pierre-Vincent, Cour, Maurice, Fort, Alexandra, Galera, Cédric, Lagarde, Emmanuel, Gabaude, Catherine, Maury, Bertrand   +8 more
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Taxis without drivers-or steering wheels

IEEE Spectrum, 2019
A COMING MILESTONE in the automobile world is the widespread rollout of Level 4 autonomy, where the car drives itself without supervision. Waymo, the company spun out of Google's self-driving car research, said it would start a commercial Level 4 taxi service by late 2018, although that hadn't happened as of press time. And GM Cruise, in San Francisco,
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