Innate behavior may drive steering and hold safety clues

By Ronnie Cohen (Reuters Health) - - A new explanation for why drivers jerk while steering could lead to vehicle safety systems that might correct dangerous moves before they occur, researchers say. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, developed a model to predict how drivers will steer just before they begin to turn the wheel. “We can perhaps see into the future,” lead researcher Ola Benderius told Reuters Health. “The interesting thing is that we can really know something before it has happened.” Benderius and Gustav Markkula examined more than 1,000 hours of driving data and found that 95 percent of 1.3 million steering corrections lasted roughly 0.4 seconds, the authors reported at the Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 58th Annual Meeting. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..