Georgia Tech team is recruiting drivers for speeding up the study
Next time, if you have the pedal to the metal, you could do more than reducing your shuttle - It could, on behalf of the acceleration of science.A group of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology is the recruitment of 1100 Peach State-pilot of a $ 3.1 million study on the role of speed in automobile accidents.
Researchers are equipped with a device called a MACBOX is like the black boxes to collect information like speed and altitude aircraft.
A MACBOX in each vehicle transmits data whenever researchers, cars for the next two years.
“We know very little pre-crash speed,” said Jennifer Ogle, investigators and a researcher in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
“We hope to be able, to some light on the causes of breakdowns and their relationships with various types of taxes, including speeding,” she said.
Based on the results of the study by drivers of large pool, “said Dr Ogle, the research team assumes analyze at least 100 crashes during the investigation.
Thanks to the commitment of two years of studies, the Georgia Tech, the team should be able to yield scientific evidence, researchers at the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety said.
The team hopes that the study, the driver in northern Georgia, answered a few trade secrets, why and how wrecks.
“We already know that if speed is involved, the injury suffered by a factor of increase appears physically,” said Dr Ogle. “What we do not know if people are more frequent speeders are at a stalemate on the market or not.”
The study results will also be used to verify the structure and layout of roads of Georgia to see how the construction of a motorway or intergovernmental contributes to road accidents.
Mike Guris, sophomore at the University of Georgia, said the design of Georgia Highway 316 tickets for speeding, he recently received a lot of traffic on the road between Athens and Atlanta.
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