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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Report causes and contributing factors leading to young driver crashes

October 2012: The Centre for Automotive Safety Research at the University of Adelaide has released a report that investigates the causes and contributing factors leading to young driver crashes. Based on the findings from this research, which used comprehensive information collected from in-depth crash investigations, a number of system-wide solutions were suggested to reduce both the incidence and severity of young driver crashes. They include in-vehicle technology such as intelligent speed adaptation, electronic stability control and collision avoidance systems, and improvements to the graduated licensing scheme such as passenger restrictions. 

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page 4 "Based on the findings from this research, a number of system-wide solutions were suggested to reduce both the incidence and severity of young driver crashes. They include in-vehicle technology such as intelligent speed adaptation"

page 35 "In-vehicle technology also offers potential system-wide solutions to reduce young driver errors due to both risk-taking and simple mistakes and to mitigate the consequences of these errors. Intelligent speed adaptation systems (ISA) that inform the driver of the current speed limit and may also advise or prevent the driver from exceeding the speed limit are a potential solution to reduce the incidence of excessive speed. A recent Australian report estimated that if ISA was implemented on young drivers’ vehicles over 20 years, a 3-17% reduction in injury crashes might be expected when accounting for the over-representation of young drivers in speed related crashes (Doecke & Woolley, 2011)"


 
 



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