Predicting perceived risk of traffic scenes using computer vision - de Winter J, Hoogmoed J, Stapel J, Dodou D, Bazilinskyy P.
Perceived risk, or subjective risk, is an important concept in the field of traffic psychology and automated driving. In this paper, we investigate whether perceived risk in images of traffic scenes can be predicted from computer vision features that may a... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Prediction of drivers' subjective evaluation of vehicle reaction under aerodynamic excitations - Kumar A, S ällström E, Sebben S, Jacobson B, Amiri K.
The objectives are to determine which quantities are important to measure to determine how drivers perceive vehicle stability, and to develop a regression model to predict which induced external disturbances drivers are able to feel. BAC... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Research on multi-target tracking method based on multi-sensor fusion - Gao B, Zheng K, Zhang F, Su R, Zhang J, Wu Y.
PURPOSE Intelligent and connected vehicle technology is in the ascendant. High-level autonomous driving places more stringent requirements on the accuracy and reliability of environmental perception. Existing research works on multitarget tracking based on... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Robust and resilient equilibrium routing mechanism for traffic congestion mitigation built upon correlated equilibrium and distributed optimization - Ning Y, Du L.
With the rapid development of wireless communication, mobile computing, and GPS technologies, drivers' route decisions nowadays rely more on navigation services, such as Google or Waze. However, these navigation services don't always come with improved tra... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Slicing vs chunking product-harm crisis: antecedents and firm performance implications - Pupovac L, Carrillat FA, Michayluk D.
PURPOSE The high prevalence of product-harm crises (PHC) represents a continuing challenge to which firms sometimes react by announcing several smaller recalls (i.e. slicing) but at other times by announcing the recall of all faulty products at once (i.e. ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
SOTIF risk mitigation based on unified ODD monitoring for autonomous vehicles - Yu W, Li J, Peng LM, Xiong X, Yang K, Wang H.
PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to design a unified operational design domain (ODD) monitoring framework for mitigating Safety of the Intended Functionality (SOTIF) risks triggered by vehicles exceeding ODD boundaries in complex traffic scenarios. ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Time headway distribution analysis of naturalistic road users based on aerial datasets - Yu R, Zhang Y, Wang L, Du X.
PURPOSE Time headway (THW) is an essential parameter in traffic safety and is used as a typical control variable by many vehicle control algorithms, especially in safety-critical ADAS and automated driving systems. However, due to the randomness of human d... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Using the iPhone's LiDAR technology to capture 3D forensic data at crime and crash scenes - Kottner S, Thali MJ, Gascho D.
Background
Three-dimensional (3D) documentation of crime and crash scenes is common practice during forensic and medicolegal investigations. Such documentation at a scene is usually carried out by specially trained personnel using various 3D imaging devic... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Validation of system safety hazard analysis in safety-critical industries: an interview study with industry practitioners - Sadeghi R, Goerlandt F.
While many hazard analysis techniques exist, little empirical research has been dedicated to their use in industrial contexts, in particular concerning how practitioners validate hazard analyses. This raises questions about the accuracy, comprehensiveness,... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 25, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
FY23 Budget Outcomes: Department of Defense
Funding for Defense Department R&D, prototyping, and testing activities has continued along its recent steep upward trend and is now double its level six years ago. This year, budgets have significantly expanded for special innovation initiatives as well as priority R&D areas such as microelectronics and biomanufacturing.wthomasFri, 02/24/2023 - 16:31 (Source: FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News)
Source: FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News - February 24, 2023 Category: Physics Authors: wthomas Source Type: news
Study Sounds Alarm on Decaying NIST Facilities
A new National Academies report details the extensive degradation of facilities on the two main campuses of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. To resolve the situation, it endorses a plan to more than triple the agency ’s current construction and maintenance budget for more than a decade.wthomasFri, 02/17/2023 - 12:28 (Source: FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News)
Source: FYI: The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News - February 17, 2023 Category: Physics Authors: wthomas Source Type: news
Application of surrogate safety measures in higher levels of automated vehicles simulation studies: a review of the state of the practice - Tafidis P, Pirdavani A.
OBJECTIVE: Surrogate safety measures (SSMs) are developed and applied as alternatives or complements of safety analyses mainly due to important road crash data availability and reliability limitations. Automated vehicles (AVs) have recently emerged as a pr... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
John Harries obituary
Physicist who designed and developed innovative instruments that provided evidence of changes in the Earth ’s atmosphereThe consensus on how human activity is changing our climate is now so comprehensive that it is easy to forget that crucial to building the scientific understanding has been the acquisition over decades of many careful environmental measurements. John Harries, who has died aged 76, was involved in designing, developing and deploying instruments that were placed on aeroplanes, balloons and satellites to measure the heat radiation emitted by the Earth. His work resulted in the first direct observational ev...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 16, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Joanna Haigh Tags: Climate science People in science Climate crisis Physics Met Office Environment Source Type: news
Lazy movie stereotypes that put women off science | Brief letters
Film-makers should retire the cliche of the lone male scientific genius, saysRachel Youngman of the Institute of PhysicsIt is hardly surprising to hear that there is a lack of diversity in the portrayal of artificial intelligence researchers in movies (Just nine out of 116 AI professionals in key films are women, study finds, 13 February). There is too often an assumption in popular culture that a scientist, inventor or programmer is male, nearly always white and, of course, a driven, eccentric genius. It is a deeply damaging and lazy stereotype, and needs to be dispatched to the dustbin of social and creative history.At t...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Guardian Staff Tags: Science Women Film Artificial intelligence (AI) Physics Programming Gender Computing Work & careers Source Type: news
Black holes ‘contain dark energy that drive expansion of universe’
International scientists propose black holes as source for dark energy, created when stars collapseNothing sucks more than a supermassive black hole, but according to a group of researchers, the enormous objects found at the heart of many galaxies may be driving the expansion of the cosmos.The radical claim comes from an international team who compared growth rates of black holes in different galaxies. They conclude that the spread of masses observed could be explained by black holes bearing cores of “dark energy”, the mysterious force behind the accelerating expansion of the universe.Continue reading... (Source: Guard...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Science Physics Black holes Space World news Source Type: news
