road safety, sociotechnical systems, automation
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| 🇬🇧 | 🇬🇧 |
| The three E's | Engineering |
| The three E's: engineering | Infrastructure (signage, traffic lights, speed bumps) |
| The three E's: enforcement | Individual (speeding, mobile phone use, drink driving) |
| The three E's: education | Educating the driver (getting license) |
| The many E's | Economics |
| Systems theory | Systems are viewed as a whole |
| Human factors | Physical |
| Risk management framework | International committees |
| Organisations that cross country boundaries, independent of government | International committees |
| Independent of government and oversee polices and directives | National committees |
| Body that runs the country and the associated departments that define the laws relating to that country | Central government |
| Implement the functions and services of level above them | Resource providers |
| Implement and enforce laws and carry out functions of central government | Regulators and associations |
| External and physical factors that impact the system | Equipment and environment |
| Road transport as a sociotechnical system | Systems are a mix of social and technical |
| Out of the loop | Automated systems can impose mental underload |
| More sophisticated the automation, the more critical any human involvement becomes | Automation paradox |
| Task demands are not reduced, but the nature of them changed | Susbstituition myth |
| Ironies of automation | Manual control skills |
| Automation means operators cannot carry out manual control skills and these skills deteriorate but needed when automation fails. | Manual control skills |