Observations of Drivers’ Behavior when Opening Car Doors

Huang, Cheng-Yong

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.705

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“…In order to avoid door crash accidents, Huang [16] discovered that car drivers can act in four different ways when opening the car door. The first way is to directly open the door and get out of the car.…”

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Research into the Safe Distance for Opening a Car Door in Order to Avoid Approaching Motorcycles from the Rear

Huang¹

2022

Applied Sciences

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Car drivers may misjudge the speed and distance of oncoming vehicles when getting out of their vehicles, leading to door crash accidents. The author invented a patented side-view mirror with distance markers to prevent such door crash accidents. Through the means of behavioural observation experiments, the main objective of this research was to observe the minimum safe distance from the rear of an approaching vehicle when opening the door of the car. The experimental results determined that the use of the Dutch Reach method yielded the shortest safe distance. Compared to the other three judgment solutions, the use of the patented side-view mirror with a distance marker to judge the minimum average safety distance had the longest distance and was the safest, meaning that it is able to help female drivers to judge the distance of approaching motorcycles from the rear and to maintain a sufficient safe distance when opening the door.

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Research into the Safe Distance for Opening a Car Door in Order to Avoid Approaching Motorcycles from the Rear

Huang¹

2022

Applied Sciences

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“…The safe distance input refers to the distance of a motorcycle approaching a parked vehicle from the rear. Generally speaking, in Taiwan, attentive car drivers will usually use the rear-view mirror to observe whether there is an approaching motorcycle before opening the door and getting out of the car [44]. Therefore, car drivers possess a psychological threshold value for safe distance.…”

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Vehicle Door Opening Control Model Based on a Fuzzy Inference System to Prevent Motorcycle–Vehicle Door Crashes

Huang

2021

Sustainability

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The goal of this research is to develop a fuzzy logic-based vehicle door control system to avoid motorcycle–vehicle door crash accidents. Accidents of this nature usually occur when the driver has parked the car, opens the door getting out of the car and collides with a motorcycle approaching from the rear, causing injury to the motorcyclist. In order to prevent such accidents, the fuzzy logic control system inputs the speed (MS) and safety distance (SD) of the motorcycle approaching from the rear, and then the fuzzy inference unit (FIU) calculates the clear output (Crisp) defuzzification Vehicle Door Opening Model (VDOM) value for the central locking system of the car, which can be used to trigger three modes, namely Danger Mode, Caution Mode and Warning Mode. In this study, the VDOM system is designed to trigger reasonable, reliable and consistent door control under different speeds of motorcycles coming from the rear and will be effectively applied to the door control of semi-automatic cars in the future.

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“…Stopped vehicles and opening car doors are a major source of car accidents, especially in construction zones [1–3 ], when there is the potential for a vehicle to unexpectedly begin moving or for a car door to unexpectedly open. Although current‐generation millimetre wave (MMW) automotive radar has significant capabilities for range‐Doppler processing [4 ], Doppler phenomenology related to safety‐critical feature identification has not yet been significantly exploited for automotive applications, and parked cars in particular.…”

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Identifying the operation of a parked car's engine, transmission, and door using millimetre wave pulse Doppler radar

Rodenbeck

Beun

2020

Electronics Letters

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This Letter demonstrates the technical capability of millimetre wave pulse‐Doppler radar to identify safety‐critical operating status information for parked cars. A simple 94‐GHz pulsed linear frequency modulated radar with stretch processing on receive provides range‐selective detection of small‐scale vibration along the length of a parked car. The resulting range‐Doppler signature clearly differentiates whether the car's engine is running or not as well as whether the car's transmission is shifting between ‘park’ and ‘drive’. The rotational motion of an opening car door also produces a distinct signature in range‐Doppler space. Incorporating this knowledge into future automotive sensors can alert oncoming vehicles to unanticipated actions of parked cars to avert potential damage or injury.

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Observations of Drivers’ Behavior when Opening Car Doors

Cited by 4 publications

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Research into the Safe Distance for Opening a Car Door in Order to Avoid Approaching Motorcycles from the Rear

Research into the Safe Distance for Opening a Car Door in Order to Avoid Approaching Motorcycles from the Rear

Vehicle Door Opening Control Model Based on a Fuzzy Inference System to Prevent Motorcycle–Vehicle Door Crashes

Identifying the operation of a parked car's engine, transmission, and door using millimetre wave pulse Doppler radar

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