H17

Question 1

What are the 3 factors that define deviant driving?

Answer 1

1. Violatings
2. Errors
3. Lapses

Question 2

1. Violatings

Answer 2

Are intentional and deliberate acts of ignoring traffic rules

Question 2

2. Errors

Answer 2

Can also have serious consequences for safety, however here it is not the question of intention, but rather the failure to drive properly

Question 2

3. Lapses

Answer 2

Refer to attention and memory deficits that are often not harmful

Question 3

Illusion of control

Answer 3

The subjective approach to the probability of being involved in an accident

Question 4

Self-enhancement bias

Answer 4

A tendency to make overly positive judgements about the self

Question 5

Experienced risk

Answer 5

The subjective feelings of risk at a given moment while driving

Question 6

Risk models

Answer 6

Foces on how drivers use subjective feelings of risk to regulate their drivingbehaviour and which factors increase or decrease this feeling

Question 7

The risk homeostasis theory

Answer 7

Drivers have a target level for risk. When the perceived risk does not reach this level, drivers will start showing more risky behaviour so that the desired threshold of risk is reached

Question 8

The task capability interface model

Answer 8

This model describes the driving task and shows how task difficulties can be derived from task requirements and a persons capabilities as a driver

Question 9

Enforcement

Answer 9

A widely used intervention to encourage road safety. It refers to the stationary and mobile identification of law violations and the subsequent application of fines or imprisonment