Sentences with phrase «of driver behaviour»
Economist Gabriel Kreindler of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge scrambled to secure human - study approval and funding for a survey of driver behaviour during the traffic restrictions.
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The most important CEO motivator isn't money, Barton suggests, but the fear of messing up, and boards would be smart to spend more time studying non-monetary drivers of executive behaviour.
Uber told the Guardian it is running or is planning several experiments designed to gain more influence over the behaviour of drivers and passengers in its vehicles, which are owned and operated by freelance contractors.
That's the sort of behaviour you'd expect from 12 - year - olds in public lobbies on F1 2017, not the professional world of iRacing, the ultra-realistic sim racing «game» populated with some of the world's best virtual and real - life drivers.
This latest research was commissioned by ADEPT in 2010 to identify reliable and consistent measurement of behaviours that will improve practitioners» understanding of how drivers and riders respond to the road environment, as well as provide a means of assessing the degree of success of route safety intervention measures.
«There are some people with a genetic predisposition to getting cancer — they tend to be relatively rare — but once you have a cancer, the major drivers of the behaviour of that cancer are genetic.
As anyone (especially the likes of Lynton Crosby) who has studied electoral behaviour knows, the reasons people give for their voting choice is not necessarily a good guide to and the actual emotional and situational drivers of that choice.
However, the researchers found that making simple changes to road signs which prompted drivers to consciously reflect on their behaviour doubled the rate of people turning off their engines.
The authors also note that driver behaviour is a hugely important and unquantified factor, they urge more qualitative research in this area and note «in order to reduce perceived risk and encourage more cycling... reducing or calming existing motorised traffic must be explored first... lane width is the most significant variable to achieve a sufficient vehicle passing distance... the provision of narrow (< 2 m) cycle lanes... may be insufficient... Reconsideration of the entire road design and further exploration of driver behavioural factors is required.»
New research by academics at the University of East Anglia (UEA), University of Kent and University of Lincoln, suggests that insights from behavioural science can help inform the design of road signs to bring about changes in driver behaviour.
Dr Haque said the distraction of mobile phone use also had an impact on driver braking behaviour.
Yet more evidence that poverty is a key driver of obesity makes the growing use of fat shaming to try to change behaviour look repulsive, says Anthony Warner
By studying the evolutionary relationship between the various species, the team found that vertical and circular pupils evolved several times in different groups of snakes, and that hunting behaviour was the strongest driver for pupil shape.
The new study «Risk Assessment of Semi-Autonomous Vehicles Using Driver Behaviour Risk Analysis: A Paradigm Shift in Motor Insurance,» which will be presented by author Cian Ryan at the Society for Risk Analysis conference, June 19 - 21 in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, proposes how risks might be governed and policies constructed using the enormous reams of data that driverless vehicles will supply the automotive insurance market.
«This means that future studies on sexually deceptive pollination should also look at pollinator behaviour as a driver of floral trait evolution, as the role of flower morphology may play a much larger role in the pollination of these intriguing orchids than was previously realised.»
More than 500 drivers were also surveyed on their perceptions of driving behaviour and their knowledge of safe following distances.
I'm interested in climate change as a driver of human behaviour,» says Funk.
Tuning AI so it provides a challenge to the human driver and avoids inexplicable behaviour while respecting the cars around it is one of the toughest things to do.
We know that feelings are the drivers of behaviours; an emotionally healthy culture supports everyone in the community with learning to notice, manage and regulate feelings.
To that end, experimentation with personal voice and drive are major drivers of teen behaviours.
The Videalert approach shows that when deployed correctly, CCTV can provide cost effective and continuous enforcement that will help to change the behaviour of drivers and will have a greater impact on increasing road safety over the longer term.
One of the main drivers behind any training programme is creating a real change in learner behaviour.
As has become the norm, comfort and sport modes allow drivers to tailor the damping behaviour to suit different driving styles, along with equivalent changes to steering effort, transmission and throttle response, and in the case of Eco mode, different air conditioning settings.
As ever with electrified vehicles, there's a curious satisfaction and a fluidity to the Clarity's behaviour, and it's difficult to think of many cars that would soothe away your daily commute to quite the same extent, but Honda hasn't added to the world's (small) tally of low - emission drivers» cars with its latest fuel cell model.
The other new button controls the «drive select» function, allowing drivers to alter the behaviour of the car via the 12.3 - inch «Virtual Cockpit».
If you could somehow measure the aspects of a car's behaviour that most fatigue a driver, both of those things would be right at the top of the list.
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Tired drivers, meanwhile, are taken care of by the fatigue warning system, which looks out for driving behaviours indicative of someone who needs a break.
In Standard mode, FlexRideoffers the whole bandwidth of settings available and adjusts to suit the driver's behaviour.
Thanks to this, with the turn of a dial, the driver can tailor the behaviour of the car to suit the ground it's driving over, whether it be mud, snow or sand.
Available in three specific «packages», Audi drive select enables the driver to fine - tune the dynamic characteristics of the car, including suspension settings, steering behaviour, throttle response and transmission shift points, via dashboard - mounted controls to suit personal preferences or prevailing road conditions.
This intelligent use of torque distribution — also known as «yaw damping» — results in neutral vehicle behaviour, making the car more stable and steerable for the driver.
Alfa DNA, a device which customises behaviour of the car according to different driving styles and road conditions, can adapt the new Alfa Romeo to the needs of each individual driver to enhance driving pleasure and comfort.
Variable ratios have long been known in the area of hydraulic steering systems; however, the tuning of such a steering system is subject to very tight limits, so that the driver is not overtaxed by the transitional behaviour.
IMO this inconsistent behaviour, for the same driver input, in the same driver selected mode, on the same section of a road, and with the same initial speed, is not acceptable.
Observing the driver's steering behaviour has proved to be a particularly strong indicator: several years of practical research by Mercedes engineers have shown that drowsy drivers make minor steering errors that can often be rapidly corrected in characteristic ways.
The GLA also has the «ATTENTION ASSIST» as standard, detecting signs of drowsiness via the steering behaviour and warning the driver about an impending microsleep.
Driver can switch between ECO and CITY modes to alter behaviour and response of the engine in the Tata Tiago.
Not surprisingly, 80 % of UBI customers agreed that the technology helped them become better drivers, and many said they began to monitor their behaviour behind the wheel in an effort to reduce their premiums.
So if the AI is running alone, it's one thing that's simple enough, but when there are many bikes in a group, they need to think about different strategies like the driver behind you or trying to overtake the one in front of you by running a bit outside the track, but it will never be a natural behaviour.
Drivers behaviour contributed to only 62 % of the accidents, mainly by speeding, inattention or failure to yield, but the coroner suggests that this is possibly a significant under - representation of the facts because, by definition in this study, the cyclists are all dead and can't defend themselves.
«Funding is a primary driver of any activist organization's behaviour,» writes Simonetti.
To condone or excuse the behaviour in this case would send a message to the public that despite their Charter rights under sections 8 and 9 of the Charter, the police can't ignore these and detain and arrest any driver.
One study estimates that pedestrians are three times more likely to be fatally struck by a vehicle in the weeks that follow the end of Daylight Savings Time.1 Accidents occur mostly because drivers have not adjusted their behaviours to account for less daylight during the morning and nighttime rush hours.2
(1) His injuries were caused by the wrongful behaviour of some one else, in this case the driver.
We will focus on the behaviour of the car or truck driver that caused the accident and help to establish, if the facts support, a solid legal case against the other driver.
Even if you always practice safe driving and obey all provincial and municipal traffic laws, you can not control the behaviour of other drivers.
Event data recorders will capture driver behaviour information, such as the speed of a vehicle, braking patterns and collision information, while the cars themselves can / will record where a driver is going and possibly who is in the car and even what the individuals in the cars are saying.
The judge stated: «The Crown submits that as a professional driver, Mr. Fitt ought to be held to a higher standard of behaviour so that his failure to drive safely, given his training and experience, ought to attract a more punitive sentence.»
One of the main drivers behind these initiatives is the realisation that, given their necessarily finite resources, public authorities can not hope themselves to address all the harm caused to European markets by anti-competitive behaviour.