User adaptation to injury protection systems: its effect on fatalities, and possible causes

Offer Grembek

University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers from University of California Transportation Center

Abstract: Although it is generally believed that people drive less carefully when their vehicles are equipped with new protection systems, the possible impact of such behavior on fatalities has never before been quantified. A meta-study across a diverse set of injury protection systems strongly suggests that users do adapt to new protection systems in a way that increases fatalities, and that the effect is more intense for systems that are easily perceived by the user. Perceptibility was quantified and found to be higher for injury protection systems that require user activation; for these systems, it is estimated that about 9% of the fatalities can be attributed to adaptation.

Keywords: Engineering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-12-01
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/49r880kj.pdf;origin=repeccitec (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cdl:uctcwp:qt49r880kj

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers from University of California Transportation Center Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Lisa Schiff ().