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Estimation of Car Driver Error Probabilities Through Driver Questionnaire  

Lee, Jae-In (Department of Industrial Engineering, KAIST)
Lim, Chang-Joo (Department of Game and Multimedia Engineering, Korea Polytechnic University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.22, no.1, 2007 , pp. 61-66 More about this Journal
Abstract
Car crashes are the leading cause of death for persons of every age. Specially, human-related factor has been known to be the primary causal factor of such crashes than vehicle-and environmental-related factors. There are various studies to analyze driver's behavior and characteristics in driving for reducing the car crashes in many areas of car engineering, psychology, human factor, etc. However, there are almost no studies which analyze mainly the human errors in driving and estimate their probabilities in terms of human reliability analysis. This study estimates the probability of human error in driving, i.e. driver error probability. First, fifty driver errors are investigated through DBQ (Driver Behavior Questionnaire) revision and the error likelihoods in driving are collected which are judged by skillful drivers using revised DBQ. Next, these likelihoods are converted into driver error probabilities using the results that verbal probabilistic expressions are changed into quantitative probabilities. Using these probabilities we can improve the warning effects on drivers by indicating their driving error likelihoods quantitatively. We can also expect the reduction effects of car accident through controlling especially dangerous error groups which have higher probabilities. Like these, the results of this study can be used as the primary materials of safety education on drivers.
Keywords
human error; driver error probability; driver behaviour questionnaire;
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