Governments alone cannot increase vehicle-highway safety. Three other stakeholders must collaborate. They are the people who design and build the vehicles; the people who design the roads and their use; and, the people who drive the vehicles. Ideally, each new vehicle purchase (and older vehicle retirement) would actually increase the overall safety level on the highways. Each new road and modification to existing infrastructure would also contribute. Each trip made should be a "safety improvement opportunity". To get to the result, many decisions (taken individually, taken together, one time, many times) must accumulate to an "order of magnitude" change. The focus of this paper is on the interdependent elements of making a trip, the driving process. (A*)
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