Considerations on speed selection and risk homeostasis in driving
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1Institute for Perception TNO, Soesterberg, The Netherlands.
Accident; Analysis and Prevention
|April 1, 1988
Abstract:
Risk-taking behavior by drivers is put within the context of a general model of utility maximization by speed choice. It is shown that so-called "risk homeostasis" is possible only under very restrictive conditions. Under more general conditions, risk compensation can occur; that is, the safety effects expected from engineering measures will be discounted to a considerable degree by shifts in behavior.