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Record W2010857741

Blinded by the lights

2005· article· en· W2010857741 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Caroline Williams

Bibliographic record

VenueThe New Scientist · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicImpact of Light on Environment and Health
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDaytimeComplaintEnvironmental healthMedicineAeronauticsAdvertisingBusinessEngineeringPolitical scienceLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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The Association of Drivers against Daytime Running Lights (DaDRL), based in northwest Wales, is a pressure group with the sole purpose of fighting the use of headlights in the daytime. Membership is rising. The main complaint is that using lights in the daytime causes dazzle to other drivers and make cyclists, motorcyclists and pedestrians more vulnerable. The issue is becoming more important as daytime running lights (DRL) may become mandatory in the USA and Europe in a bid to save lives and reduce accidents. DRLs are compulsory in some countries, such as Canada, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. A study by NHTSA and a review financed by the European Commission have concluded that DRLs reduce multiparty daytime crashes by 5-23%, but these figures have been refuted by the British Motorcyclists Federation and DaDRL. DaDRL also suggests that using conventional DRLs increases carbon emissions, but that light emitting diodes (LEDs) would reduce the environmental impact of DRLs.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.036
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.115
Threshold uncertainty score0.384

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.036
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0070.004
Scholarly communication0.0080.007
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0070.014
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1150.064

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.259
Teacher spread0.245 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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