The ACTIVE Project

The ACTIVE Project

Links to automobile safety web sites

This page contains links to other web sites concerned with automobile safety.

General Automobile Safety

NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - Unites States Department of Transportation).
Unites States Department of Transportation - (in particular, pdf versions of reports with names such as DOT HS 808 320 can usually be found by searching this we site if not found by searching the NHTSA site.

Driver Inattention

A paper titled The role of driver inattention in crashes: new statistics from the 1995 Crashworthiness Data System, by J-S. Wang et al., can be viewed on-line.

Analysis of some types of automobile accidents

Run-off-road-accidents.
Rear-end accidents (i.e., one car going into the back of another).

Older Drivers

Summary report titled Analysis of Older Drivers on Freeways can be viewed.

Head-up Displays

A report titled Human Factors Aspects of Using Head UP Displays in Automobiles: A Review of the Literature can be viewed.