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Vehicle Feedback and Driver Situation Awareness (Human Factors in Road and Rail Transport) by Walker, Guy H., Stanton, Neville A., Salmon, Paul M. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A potentially troubling aspect of modern vehicle design - some would argue - is a trend for isolating the driver and reducing vehicle feedback, usually in the name of comfort and refinement but increasingly because of automation. There is little doubt cars have become more civilised over the years, yet despite this, the consequences of driver behaviour remain to a large extent anecdotal. Readers will have heard such anecdotes for themselves. They usually take the form of drivers of a certain age recalling their first cars from the 1970s or 80s, in which "doing 70 mph really felt like it". The question is whether such anecdotes actually reflect a bigger, more significant issue that could be better understood. Related questions have been explored in other domains such as aviation, where the change to ''fly-by-wire'' did indeed bring about some occasionally serious performance issues that were not anticipated. Despite some clear parallels, automotive systems have been left relatively unstudied. The research described in this book aims to explore precisely these issues from a Human Factors perspective. This means connecting the topics of vehicle feel, vehicle dynamics, and automotive e

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Author

Walker, Guy H., Stanton, Neville A., Salmon, Paul M.

Publisher

CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317147831

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Technology, Computer Science