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Citation

Naatanen R, Summala H. J. Occup. Accid. 1982; 4(2-4): 145-156.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1982, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

The fast technological progress of this century gave mankind fast road traffic, among others, but it also gave numerous road accidents. Hence speed and efficiency on road created by technology was heavily paid in safety, and this still continues to be the case despite considerable efforts to remedy the situation. What went wrong? This analysis has to involve human beings and take place at two interacting levels: (1) the society as developing technology for, and applying it to, the road traffic system; and (2) the human being as the user of this system. At the societal level of the analysis, it is important to recognize the operation of various factors, such as the values prevailing in society, in determining how and for what purposes technology is applied to the road-traffic system. Mainly due to such factors, technology has been applied to road traffic favouring its efficiency at the expense of safety. This tendency was promoted by naive belief in human adaptability to the new system which belief basically stems from what is described as the perceptual-motor or skill model of driver behavior. This common, at least implicitly held model is also criticized for misguiding traffic-safety work and its replacement with such a model which recognizes the crucial importance of motivational and decision-making factors.

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