The cause of traffic accidents when drivers use car phones and the functional requirements of car phones for safe driving

International Journal of Vehicle Design

Volumn 26, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS, 2001, Pages 48-56

  Fuse, Tomoyuki ^a   Matsunaga, Katsuya ^a,b   Shidoji, Kazunori ^a   Matsuki, Yuji ^a   Umezaki, Kouji ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collision avoidance; Driving behaviour; KM model; Mobile phone; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TELEPHONE SETS;

CAR PHONES; DRIVING BEHAVIOUR; REACTION TIME; SAFE DRIVING;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 0034974565     PISSN: 01433369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJVD.2001.001924     Document Type: Article

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