Fixed base drivers

Lin et al. (2008) examined drivers use of ACC by subjecting drivers in a fixed-based driving simulator to secondary tasks (distractions). The ACC gap-size setting... 

Figure 2 3. A fixed base simulator at the Ben Gurion University Ergonomics Laboratory. Left view of car and driver s screen (top), and the car s electrodes and in-vehicle display panel. Right monitors in the control room (top) and driver connected to EEG electrodes (bottom).

The experimental setup sketched in Figure 5.2.3 comprises a burner with ad = 22 mm nozzle exit diameter and a driver unit (loudspeaker) fixed at its base. The burner body is a cylindrical tube of 65 mm inner diameter containing a set of grids and a honeycomb followed by a convergent nozzle with an area contraction ratio of cr= 9 1. 

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The cost of a schedule is a combination of both time and distance in addition to fixed costs because it is computed based on driver wages, cost of fuel, and vehicle depreciation. Feasible schedules can be generated using deadheading—that is, a driver can drive a tractor without a tiailer to reposition himself or herself for the next leg. Tractor-only movements are used sparingly in a good set of schedules. 

The vertical axis in Figure 27.1 reflects different levels of information capture along the supply chain. Single company data (Level I) expands to take into account the cost of capital (Level II). This includes the fixed assets and working capital required by the company to operate. At Level III, companies share cost data to gain a multicompany view. At Level IV, the final stage, cost drivers are applied to activity-based costs to develop supply chain product costs. These costs support collaborative strategic product line decisions at a multicompany level. 

When we drive behind another vehicle in traffic, we do not maintain a fixed distance or time to the car ahead. Instead, we oscillate between some minimal safe headway that we try not to go under, and a headway that we consider neither too far not too close. These two extremes define our range of comfortable headways (Ohta, 1994). To avoid colliding with a vehicle ahead of us, we therefore have to maintain a time headway that is longer than our brake reaction time in that situation. Based on studies of brake reaction times, a commonly recommended headway is 2 seconds, and a method that is commonly recommended to drivers in order to apply that rule is to wait until the lead vehicle crosses a definable point (such as a roadside post) and then count two seconds (e.g. twenty one, twenty two ) if we pass the definable point before we finish our coimting than our gap is too short. This is known as the 2-seconds rule. In contrast to... 

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