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Record W618157719

Driving on the right vs. left side of the road: ergonomics and safety

2013· article· en· W618157719 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Jean Orselli

Bibliographic record

VenueRoutes/Roads · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicUrban Transport and Accessibility
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGreat RiftGlobePosition (finance)Human factors and ergonomicsLeft behindOccupational safety and healthPoison controlInjury preventionSuicide preventionPolitical sciencePsychologyBusinessMedicineLawEnvironmental health
DOInot available

Abstract

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While motorists drive on the left side of the road in Japan, Indonesia, the former British Empire (except for Canada) and several African countries previously under British rule, driving on the right side is predominant across the globe. Two basic questions are raised from this situation, as follows: 1) What underlying ergonomic factors are inherent in this difference? and 2) In regards to safety, is it preferable to drive on one side of the road versus the other? In addressing these questions, this article has found the following to be useful: the debate held in France on the automobile driver's seat position, 1909-1912; the English public awareness campaign, Walk on the left side of the sidewalk!, circa 1920; and a comparison of current rates of traffic accidents involving pedestrians.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.042
Threshold uncertainty score0.711

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.011
GPT teacher head0.237
Teacher spread0.227 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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