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Dr Lisa Dorn Reader in Driver Behaviour and
Training University of Cranfield
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Vulnerable Road Users
Lisa Dorn Director of Driving Research
Group Department of Human Factors
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Crash Risk
Drivers fatalities per million miles travelled
(UK, 2007)
In 2008, almost 10,000 young drivers were killed
or seriously injured on UK roads (DfT, 2009)
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Young Driver Behaviour
Exposure to risk? Attitudes to risk? Experience
of risk? Feelings of risk?
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• Young Driver
• Behaviour

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• Kevin

KEVINs route from sensation to action
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Physiology of feelings
A neuron firing Cortex thinks
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The Amygdala

• Thalamus keeps signals moving
• Threatening stimulus sent to visual cortex
• Cortex sends signal to Amygdala
• Amygdala releases peptides and hormones to create
  feelings of risk
• Bypasses the thinking brain

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• Young Driver
• Behaviour

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Somatic Marker Hypothesis

• Novice drivers fail to emotionally appraise
  hazards (Kinnear, 2009)
• Near miss will trigger a marker
• Feelings guide decision making not CAUSES them
• Explains novice driver deficiencies in visual
  search, hazard perception etc

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Police responses to hazards
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Young drivervisual search
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Video
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Solution?

• Enforcement? - Effect of conviction disappears
  within 3 months
• Education? DSA evaluation
• Diversion schemes

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• Technology enhanced
• learning

• Process of acquiring, storing and applying
• information is critical to learning and transfer

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And finally
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