Drivers' errors in, and out of, context
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Ergonomics
- Vol. 33 (10) , 1423-1429
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139008925342
Abstract
Error depends for its definition, commission, and the seriousness of its consequences on the circumstances in which it occurs. As such, it is argued, in this overview of a large number of contemporary papers on (driver) error, that an erroneous act is only a useful index of behaviour where the background to that act is properly understood. The role of error in the development of skill, and its relationship to accident causation and risk-taking is discussed from this point of view.Keywords
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