Professor of Human Factors, Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation, UNSW
Dr Michael Regan is Professor of Human Factors in the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI) at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia.
He is a Psychologist and Human Factors specialist with more than 20 years’ experience as a transport safety researcher - in Australia, Europe and the US. He has spent much of his career researching driver distraction and inattention, and driver interaction with automated vehicles.
Michael is the author/co-author of around 250 published research documents, 180 of them peer-reviewed, including three books – two of them on driver distraction and inattention and the other on driver acceptance of vehicle automation.
Automated vehicles may encourage a new breed of distracted drivers
Sep 25, 2018 10:10 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Few people pay close attention to the traffic situation unfolding around them when theyre travelling as a passenger in a car, even if theyre in the front seat. And that could make partially automated vehicles, which are...
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