Automobile Driving - Research News and Information

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Injuries resulting from car surfing--United States, 1990-2008.

15 Oct 2008 "Car surfing" is a term introduced in the mid-1980s to describe a thrill-seeking activity that involves riding on the exterior of a moving motor vehicle while it is being driven by another person. Although reports of car-surfing injuries have been ... Read more...

Driving behaviour after brain injury: a follow-up of accident rate and driving patterns 6-9 years post-injury.

29 Sep 2008 OBJECTIVE: A follow-up of accident rate and driving patterns of patients 6-9 years after brain injury. DESIGN: Postal questionnaire sent to patients with brain injury who were assessed consecutively in the period 1997-2000 and who were re-issued. ... Read more...

Effect of driver distraction and low alcohol concentrations on useful field of view and frequency-doubling technology perimetry.

30 Aug 2008 PURPOSE: To investigate the effects of a mental psychometric task that simulates the distraction effect of a hands-free mobile phone and of low alcohol concentrations (0.3-0.5 g/l) on two tests: the useful field of view (UFOV) and ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Automobile Driving'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Injuries resulting from car surfing--United States, 1990-2008. 15 Oct 2008
• Driving fatalities on US presidential election days. 29 Sep 2008
• Driving behaviour after brain injury: a follow-up of accident rate and driving patterns 6-9 years post-injury. 29 Sep 2008
• Effect of driver distraction and low alcohol concentrations on useful field of view and frequency-doubling technology perimetry. 30 Aug 2008
• Determining standards of care for substance abuse and alcohol use in long-haul truck drivers. 30 Aug 2008
• Individual differences in South Australian general practitioners' knowledge, procedures and opinions of the assessment of older drivers. 30 Aug 2008
• Dementia severity and on-road assessment: briefly revisited. 30 Aug 2008
• Driving and neurodegenerative diseases. 30 Aug 2008
• The contribution of cognition and spasticity to driving performance in multiple sclerosis. 30 Aug 2008
• Reduce risk by reducing driving. 30 Aug 2008
• Person-environment transactions in youth drinking and driving. 30 Aug 2008
• Examining the link between drinking-driving and depressed mood. 30 Aug 2008
• Left-sided excess in the laterality of cutaneous melanoma. 30 Aug 2008
• Cognition, but not sensation, mediates age-related changes in the ability to monitor the environment. 30 Aug 2008
• Social integration and social support among older adults following driving cessation. 30 Aug 2008
• Evolution of road risk disparities at small-scale level: example of Belgium. 7 Aug 2008
• Passenger distractions among adolescent drivers. 6 Aug 2008
• The safest seat: effect of seating position on occupant mortality. 3 Aug 2008
• The Iowa Graduated Driver Licensing program: effectiveness in reducing crashes of teenage drivers. Aug 2008
• [Influence of changes to daily dose of opioids on aspects of cognitive and psychomotor performance involved in driving] 30 Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Automobile Driving'

Definition: The effect of environmental or physiological factors on the driver and driving ability. Included are driving fatigue, and the effect of drugs, disease, and physical disabilities on driving.

Descriptor UI: D001334

Alternative terms: Automobile Driving; Automobile Drivings; Driving, Automobile; Drivings, Automobile;

Related Mesh Headings: Accidents, Traffic; Motor Vehicles;

Allowable Qualifiers: education; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; standards; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: I03.125;

History Note: 67(64)