Citation

Moriarty P, Honnery D. Int. J. Veh. Des. 2003; 31(2): 176-186.

Affiliation

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Monash University, Caulfeld East, Vic. 3145, Australia

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Inderscience Publishers)

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Abstract

Although road traffic fatalities in the high-income countries have fallen markedly in recent decades, non-fatality crashes have not. Further reduction in crash severity and frequency will be hampered by probable motorized travel. Distraction from the driving task could also increase in parallel with in-vehicle telematics use. Use of the new information technology is increasingly seen as a solution to the road safety problem. It is argued here that although the new technology has a key role to play in improving road transport generally, and could be very useful in crash protection, it will be of less help in reducing collision frequency.


Keywords: Driver distraction