Generally and cybernetically speaking, conduct and other adaptive behaviour are the results of transformation of information subjected to a process. As soon as a state of uncertainty is triggered, the driver must make several predecisions and adopt an ill-defined strategy, make adjustments, all in a very short time. Information must by intelligible. Conduct, as defined in psychology, is involved in the accomplishment of nearly all human tasks. A problem is a question or set of questions that must be answered by rational, logical or intuitive methods. Intellectual conducts are the hard core of the cognitive approach to human behaviour patterns. The main functions a driver executes are information reception, storage, processing, decision and action or response to environmental situations. In problem and conflict situations, decisions must be made in a very short time, which means that the (memorised) knowledge base must be reliable and the data received from the environment precise, free from doubt, noncontradictory and relevant. Operational capacities can be influenced by stress and associated anxiety-generating elements. Intensity of activity then exceeds capacity of the operator's brain. For behavioural effectiveness in terms of safety, situations of uncertainty in or generated by road environment must be pinpointed and tackled.
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