Comparing crash rates between humans and self-driving cars requires more data than anyone currently collects. And some of it will be quite hard to figure out.
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A rethink in the approach to road freight transport safety is urgently required to reduce fatalities and injuries.
Letting cars drive themselves could save some people huge amounts of time. What might they do when they would have been driving?
A sociolinguist wonders if they’ll ever be able to interpret the waves, high beams and middle fingers of human drivers.
Road safety campaigns targeting mobile phone use among drivers should emphasise how perceived social pressure is not an acceptable excuse for engaging in the behaviour.
Why do tech companies care so much about self-driving cars? If drivers no longer need to pay attention to the road, they can use their mobile devices even more.
Conventional approaches to assessing the impact of cameras on collisions may be overoptimistic.
While other countries race into the distance, Australia is still on the starting grid when it comes to electric cars. Why so slow? Because we don’t have a proper recharging network.
Using ride-hailing services full-time would mean avoiding the hassles of owning a car. But it could cost less, too – depending on how you value your time otherwise spent behind the wheel.
Should parents be worried that many teens are putting off traditional rites of passage like working, driving and dating?
The dystopian urban future imagined in the Judge Dredd comics warns against letting technology rule our transport systems.
You’re four times as likely to have an accident while talking on the phone while driving – even hands free.
The scientific evidence is surprising – and terrifying.
New research reveals there is no evidence to suggest a higher driver licensing age in Victoria has caused higher unemployment rates for 17-year-olds.
We have a reliable and easy-to-use test to measure blood alcohol concentration. But right now we don’t have a fast, reliable test to gauge whether someone is too doped up to drive.
Driverless cars are the future, right? Wait. While things would be simple if our roads were 100% driverless, getting there is anything but. And planning for roads shared by robots and humans is hard.
Society often assumes older drivers are bad drivers but that is not necessarily true.
Projects like Sydney’s WestConnex and Melbourne’s Western Distributor don’t account for real world evidence of driver behaviour in estimating travel time savings.
The likes of Tesla’s autopilot technology isn’t meant for you to take your eyes off the road – there could be fatal consequences if you do.
There are many important reasons why transport planners and policymakers should encourage and support this delay in car dependence.
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology, The Open University
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Associate Professor in Transport, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow in Road Safety Research, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, CQUniversity Australia
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Research Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Keele University
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PhD Candidate, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Research Fellow, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Research Fellow, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Professor of Industrial Strategy & Regional Development, Co-Director Centre for Governance, Regions and Industrial Strategy (CGRIS), University of Bath
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Professor and Chair of Department of Psychiatry and Director, Center for Medical Cannabis Research, University of California, San Diego