30 How effective is driver training and education? Is it helping to reduce accidents? Which countries have the most difficult driver’s tests? Can simulation help improve training and licensing procedures? -What is the most unbreakable record in sports? (Time 17:56) Download link Articles/Books: Understanding Driving Driver Education Task Analysis The effectiveness of driver training as…

29 How good are drivers at detecting risks and dangers that lurk around the corner? What is the best way to assess this ability? Do people actually want some risk when driving? Is the desire for risk going to counteract our efforts to making make the road safer through interventions? -How does glare effect sports…

28 Why do teenage and elderly drivers have consistently higher accident rates? Are teenagers just being careless and risky? Does it matter who is in the car with them? Do the declines perceptual and cognitive skills associated with age making driving unsafe for older drivers? -Guiding an athlete’s attention during training (Time 25:11) Download link…

27 If your vehicle can detect you are about to collide with something how should it warn you? As it turns out, getting the human factors issues (e.g., timing, modality, level of information) correct is critical to getting a fast and appropriate response from the driver while at the same time keeping trust in the…

26 What new technologies are being developed to make driving safer? Will they remedy all the problems of driver distraction? Are we ready for an automated car to do the driving for us? 5 evidence-based tips for designing effective sports training (Time ???). Download link Key points: • To make driving safer we need to…

25 How much does talking or texting on a smart phone impair driving performance? How can we get drivers’ attention back on the road? How can we effectively bring the sports field into the lab by creating representative task designs? Are coaches impairing skill acquisition by oversimplifying sports skills? (Time 20:47) Download link Key points:…

24D A discussion with Dan McGehee, Director of the Transportation and Vehicle Safety Research Program in the Public Policy Center at the University of Iowa. We discuss how driver behavior in a simulator compares to a real car, using black box recordings to understand how drivers react just before they crash, using instrumented vehicles to…

24A A discussion with Natasha Merat, Associate Professor in the Institute for Transport Studies at The University of Leeds. We discuss topics including detecting driving distraction, the effects of fatigue on driving and how to keep a driver in the loop with an automated vehicle. Download link More information about my guest: http://www.its.leeds.ac.uk/people/n.merat https://www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-merat-879b7844 https://twitter.com/NatashaMerat…

24 How much attention is required to drive effectively? Is driving a manual transmission really done automatically? How well do we remember the details of driving accidents? What is the best way to develop tactical creativity and divergent thinking in young athletes? (Time:) Download link Key points • Consistent with traditional theories of skill acquisition,…

23D A discussion with Nick Reed, Academy Director at the Transport Research Lab in the UK. We discuss topics including ball catching, distracted driving, new in car technologies, the human factors and ethical challenges associated driverless vehicles, and the real world mobility lab TRL is using to study the future of transportation. Download link More…