This collection of movies provide an entertaining, and a potentially useful, complement to the textbook “Designing for People: An introduction to human factors engineering“. The films show examples of human factors design concepts in...
As self-driving cars begin to share the road with traditional cars a critical question emerges: “How safe is safe enough?” Often this question is framed in terms of objective estimates of risk based on...
Driver distraction is one reason why the US lags the rest of the world in driving safety. The US has one of the worst safety records of any developed nation either by fatality per kilometer traveled...
The Challenger shuttle disaster: engineers need communication skills–not just technical knowledge-to avoid disaster https://t.co/Cf5MJHvisH — Laura Albert (@lauraalbertphd) May 22, 2017
How to fall to your death and live to tell the tale "Fall injuries are the leading cause of death in people over 60" https://t.co/W08kN6bRSY — John Lee (@Jdlee888) June 10, 2017
The New YorkerVerified account @NewYorker Why our minds make mistakes inevitable: http://nyer.cm/GucFekQ “The problem is that we imagine how things will go right but not how they will go wrong.” Predicts future failings of automated...
The first safety report for self-driving cars submitted to NHTSA. Waymo describes its Safety by Design philosophy https://storage.googleapis.com/sdc-prod/v1/safety-report/waymo-safety-report-2017-10.pdf …
The US almost leads the world in traffic safety (in a bad way)
Considering deaths per kilometer the US looks much better than when considering deaths per 100k of population (but still not good). Korea much worse. Norway and Sweden safest by either measure.
More people die in Korea and the US in car crashes than most countries, but for different reasons. US drivers are not the worst in the world, but they also drive a lot, leading...