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Certain activities and events both inside and outside a vehicle can distract drivers and lead to degraded performance. New technologies- such as entertainment, communication, and driver assistance systems- play a significant role in distraction. This unique volume defines driver distraction, discusses various causes, and explains how to measure acceptable and unacceptable levels of distraction. Several chapters address measurement techniques based on performance and epidemiological studies. Most importantly, the text explores ways to mitigate driver distraction as well as countermeasures including vehicle design and effective legislation.
Chase Dagger is a private detective with no past, a sometime fiancee, a scarlet macaw with a photographic memory, and a beautiful assistant with the ability to shapeshift. Dagger has a knack for attracting the most unusual cases. So when a client informs him he received a call from his wife, the detective isn't surprised to learn that the wife has been dead for five years.
When a university professor explains his theory that a series of murders is connected to a full moon on Friday the 13th and a shape-shifter, P.I. Chase Dagger is very nervous since his partner Sara is the only shape-shifter he's ever known.
Brendan Montague left Fleet Street to pursue his passion: reporting. But can bloggers take on bankers, conglomerates, polluters – and win?
The Today I'm a . . . shaped board book series takes young children on a week in the life of different careers. In Today I'm a Race Car Driver, kids will follow Leo, a racecar driver, and get to see the various jobs on a race track and the tools used to keep a race car up and running. Filled with colorful images and fun car vocabulary, young children will get a glimpse of what it's like to be a racecar driver.
A light-hearted look at our common driving mistakes. Written in rhyme for reading enjoyment, it introduces four characters (i.e. Chatty Patty, Nervous Nell, Ploddin' Paul and Zippin' Zack) to help illustrate some common sense tips to improve traffic flow through simple awareness, consistency and courteousness. For more information, see www.danielspoems.com
This SpringerBrief presents the fundamentals of driver drowsiness detection systems, provides examples of existing products, and offers guides for practitioners interested in developing their own solutions to the problem. Driver drowsiness causes approximately 7% of all road accidents and up to 18% of fatal collisions. Proactive systems that are capable of preventing the loss of lives combine techniques, methods, and algorithms from many fields of engineering and computer science such as sensor design, image processing, computer vision, mobile application development, and machine learning which is covered in this brief. The major concepts addressed in this brief are: the need for such system...
Oliver's father's suicide, committed when she was only five years old, has haunted her all her life. In "Assembling My Father," she offers the extraordinary chronicle of her journey of discovery to learn who he was and why he died.
Introduces the Korean language, and provides lessons in Korean grammar, usage, and vocabulary, with tables and charts of the various levels of speech and of noun and verb forms.
Ludwig Treiber (Lewis Driver) arrived in America in 1749 from Holland. He changed his name to Driver because that is the meaning of Treiber. He settled in Pennsylvania where he married Barbara Sprenkle and they had eight children. Information on their descendants is included in this volume. Present descendants live in Virginia, California, and elsewhere.