This study clarified the features of fatal truck-pedestrian and truck-cyclist accidents by a comparison with sedans. Fatal accident data from the Japanese Institute Traffic Accident Research and Data Analysis (ITARDA) database were analyzed for …

This study collected data concerning preferred driving postures for sedans of Chinese driving population, aiming for investigating the relationships between drivers’ joint angles and their gender, region and anthropometry, and also finding …

Circa 2006: the then UPA government at the centre came up with a new legislation that seemed confounding at that time, but one that went to create a fairly successful vehicle segment in the Indian industry. Vehicles sub-four-metre in le

License plate recognition technology is of paramount importance in intelligent transportation. While ideal scenario license plate recognition technology has gradually matured, traditional methods still exhibit limitations in performance under …

China is not only overtaking the Western world with its electric cars, but also catching up with its combustion-engine vehicles, which it is now selling worldwide. What are Chinese companies doing better than their Western counterparts? And what …

Different groups of people may have different demands for the same type of product. This phenomenon may not have been as noticeable for automotive products manufactured before the era of intelligence. Any given user would want a vehicle with large …

We return here to the usual protected, or sensitive, variables that can lead to discrimination in insurance. We mention direct discrimination, with race and ethnic origin, gender and sex, or age. We also discuss genetic-related discrimination, and …

Group fairness, as studied in Chap. 8 , considered fairness from a global perspective, in the entire population, by attempting to answer the question “are individuals in the advantaged group and in the disadvantaged group treated differently?” Or …

Horizontal curves as one of the most dangerous places on roads affect the vehicle's balance, which depends on various factors such as vehicle type and superelevation. Side friction, one of the most critical parameters in designing curves, ensures …

The concept of Reputation Risk existed since 10 years ago and started to be applied approximately 5 years ago, stressed out its importance for executives continuously since then. The Economist considers reputation risk as 'risk of risks' …

The movement of a single vehicle is a fundamental building block in traffic modeling. A single vehicle can significantly impact the performance of a traffic stream. Consider an on-ramp vehicle entering a busy freeway at a low speed: it can cause …

To cover the problem of dangerous state prediction ahead of vehicle rollover and rescue the vehicle under abrupt cornering condition, a dynamic Bayesian network (DBN) merged robust control is developed to balance the vehicle ride comfort and …

This chapter, “Conclusion and Outlook: Korea’s Automakers, 2020 and Beyond,” closes the manuscript by providing some important updates for Korea’s five automakers between 2020 and 2022, and by offering the author’s perspective regarding their near-term prospects at home and abroad. This discussion follows the order of the book’s chapters, GMK, followed by Hyundai-Kia in Korea and overseas, and then Ssangyong Motor and RSM.