Well my brother who works for Weta Workshop is in Thailand where some of the damage has been done, we haven't heard from him yet.
But there is a geek connection.
Well there are a couople of schools of thought, there is Wilde who has the Risk Homostatis model that says that it is balanced out by risky behaviour and non-motivational changes in road safety end up having no net benefit....
But many others (including myself) disagree with that. Yes wider roads and ABS breaking are safer.. but not to the extend they should be, because people do risk compensate.
As far as the opposite effect, this is a know phenoma in driver safety;
It is called risk compensation or behavioural adaptation, if you look at things like accident rates before and after seat belts have been made complusory you find that while fatalities for those in cars decrease it is not at the level predicted by statistics, and fatalities for pedestrians and cyclists acutally increase..
Basically people feel safer so they drive faster/aren't as careful.
The interesting thing is that the effect is strongest for safety changes that make the chance of an accident lower (e.g. ABS breaking) and weakest for things that just reduce the cost of an accident (e.g. Airbags).
I my own research I have found that even in simulator studies that risk compensation appears to happen as far as road width goes (i.e. if roads are widened people drive faster, if they are narrowed they drive slower).
HUD's are not a good idea, they place undue mental workload on users and are distacting.
Then the US airforce first started using them everyone got excited and was planning to put them in commerical airplanes and even cars, but then all the research came out saying how bad they were (as in they distracted airforce pilots so much that they crashed/nearly crashed on landings) and I think there are actually laws in place at least in commercial airplanes against HUD's.
The only reason the Mil still uses them really is because they have this thing about being able to put crosshairs up there.. give the Mil a crosshair in your design and it is happy..:)
As far as the headlights go, the fact is that modern headlights as they stand are a problem.
Most headlights at low beam are not save to drive with once you go over 70kph.. the solution of course is to make them brighter but that starts blinding people as you said.
One suggested solution is to use polarized light and polarized light reading in cars windsheilds which would easily solve the visability vs glare problem.
Of course the problem with that is the transition period between getting cars with polarised light on the road and those without..
(for more on this see "Sivak, M (2002), How common sense finds us on the road: contribution of bounded rationality to the annual worldwide toll of one million traffic accidents. Transportation Research, Part F-5, pp 259-269)
I thought that might be the case, so who did voice him? And does he still have a moment of voicing glory? Or has he been completely removed by the Voice of Movie Whore?
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Oh great.. I go fix a spelling mistake in the title and remove the bolding.. and accidently press the return key and submit it instead..
Man.. smart? Me.. indeed!
As someone working in the field of Human Factors, with special interest in driver safety and road design, it always worrys me to see increased Automation in cars.
There is a rule in Human Factors it goes like this:
"As Automation increases, the cost of mistakes also increases"
For example if you have individuals controlling every car on a street if one individual screws up, they wreak their cars and maybe a few other people get involved in a pile up.
On the other hand if you go with some of the extreme freeway control systems where the cars become totally automated and in control of a single traffic control ententity, if something goes wrong with that automated system the potential cost of the mistake could be much higher.
Usually the comparison is made between the cost of screwing up with a Hammer verses the cost of screwing up with a Huge industrial machine... but I feel the same thing holds here.
Resist Automation in vehicles, instead look at forgiving/self-explaining roads as the way to driver safety.
Has anyone spared a thought for this poor guy? For years, he was Boba Fett.. that was his claim to fame..
Now even his voice in has been replaced by Temura Morrison or as we down here in NZ like to call him "dear old movie whore" for his ability to pop up in the most unlikely movies (the worst being Vertical Limit with that horrible fake shifting accent as the helicopter pilot).
I mean sure he can say "thats me" and point... but people will just say "you don't look Maori to me man..":)
Yeah but come on now.. it may not be news but it lets people call Microsoft names.. use M$ instead of MS and generally shout at each other.. and if Slashdo isn't about that, what is it about?
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Well my brother who works for Weta Workshop is in Thailand where some of the damage has been done, we haven't heard from him yet. But there is a geek connection.
Actually for my PhD I am considering looking at ways to make roads feel unsafe to a driver, without them actually being unsafe.
Hopefully at a implicit level, and without freaking the driver out.
Roads are easier than cars to change since in most castes the govt. still controls roading so it can be regulated.
Well there are a couople of schools of thought, there is Wilde who has the Risk Homostatis model that says that it is balanced out by risky behaviour and non-motivational changes in road safety end up having no net benefit....
But many others (including myself) disagree with that. Yes wider roads and ABS breaking are safer.. but not to the extend they should be, because people do risk compensate.
I can see the look on the ethics boards faces now.. "you want to put a spike, where?"
Perhaps a reality TV show could do it though, "Welcome to driver safety EXTREME!"
As far as the opposite effect, this is a know phenoma in driver safety;
It is called risk compensation or behavioural adaptation, if you look at things like accident rates before and after seat belts have been made complusory you find that while fatalities for those in cars decrease it is not at the level predicted by statistics, and fatalities for pedestrians and cyclists acutally increase..
Basically people feel safer so they drive faster/aren't as careful.
The interesting thing is that the effect is strongest for safety changes that make the chance of an accident lower (e.g. ABS breaking) and weakest for things that just reduce the cost of an accident (e.g. Airbags).
I my own research I have found that even in simulator studies that risk compensation appears to happen as far as road width goes (i.e. if roads are widened people drive faster, if they are narrowed they drive slower).
HUD's are not a good idea, they place undue mental workload on users and are distacting. Then the US airforce first started using them everyone got excited and was planning to put them in commerical airplanes and even cars, but then all the research came out saying how bad they were (as in they distracted airforce pilots so much that they crashed/nearly crashed on landings) and I think there are actually laws in place at least in commercial airplanes against HUD's. The only reason the Mil still uses them really is because they have this thing about being able to put crosshairs up there.. give the Mil a crosshair in your design and it is happy.. :)
As far as the headlights go, the fact is that modern headlights as they stand are a problem. Most headlights at low beam are not save to drive with once you go over 70kph.. the solution of course is to make them brighter but that starts blinding people as you said. One suggested solution is to use polarized light and polarized light reading in cars windsheilds which would easily solve the visability vs glare problem. Of course the problem with that is the transition period between getting cars with polarised light on the road and those without.. (for more on this see "Sivak, M (2002), How common sense finds us on the road: contribution of bounded rationality to the annual worldwide toll of one million traffic accidents. Transportation Research, Part F-5, pp 259-269)
I thought that might be the case, so who did voice him? And does he still have a moment of voicing glory? Or has he been completely removed by the Voice of Movie Whore?
Oh great.. I go fix a spelling mistake in the title and remove the bolding.. and accidently press the return key and submit it instead.. Man.. smart? Me.. indeed!
As someone working in the field of Human Factors, with special interest in driver safety and road design, it always worrys me to see increased Automation in cars. There is a rule in Human Factors it goes like this: "As Automation increases, the cost of mistakes also increases" For example if you have individuals controlling every car on a street if one individual screws up, they wreak their cars and maybe a few other people get involved in a pile up. On the other hand if you go with some of the extreme freeway control systems where the cars become totally automated and in control of a single traffic control ententity, if something goes wrong with that automated system the potential cost of the mistake could be much higher. Usually the comparison is made between the cost of screwing up with a Hammer verses the cost of screwing up with a Huge industrial machine... but I feel the same thing holds here. Resist Automation in vehicles, instead look at forgiving/self-explaining roads as the way to driver safety.
Has anyone spared a thought for this poor guy? For years, he was Boba Fett.. that was his claim to fame.. Now even his voice in has been replaced by Temura Morrison or as we down here in NZ like to call him "dear old movie whore" for his ability to pop up in the most unlikely movies (the worst being Vertical Limit with that horrible fake shifting accent as the helicopter pilot). I mean sure he can say "thats me" and point... but people will just say "you don't look Maori to me man.." :)
Yeah but come on now.. it may not be news but it lets people call Microsoft names.. use M$ instead of MS and generally shout at each other.. and if Slashdo isn't about that, what is it about?