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The Fast and The Furious: Drivers, Speed Cameras and Control in a Risk Society presents a sociological and criminological perspective critical to understanding the driver's role at the centre of road safety interventions. Such an approach is, it is argued, as crucial to an understanding of attempts to reduce road crashes, deaths and injuries as approaching such questions from an engineering or educational perspective. The book offers an explanation for the continued debate about one road safety intervention - the speed camera - by situating that debate within contemporary literature about the 'risk society' (Beck, 1992) and more broadly understood experiences of risk faced on a daily basis by drivers. Rather than a focus on risk as something that can be objectively assessed, measured and managed separately from the social context in which it is encountered, it suggests that 'risk' is something that permeates this particular debate from every angle. The book achieves its aims by utilising sociological and criminological perspectives to investigate issues such as: - the social context in which it is possible for drivers to reject official scientific expertise about crash causation and camera effectiveness - the self-defined 'respectability' of the population being problematised and its juxtaposition with a 'proper' police focus on 'real criminals' - the reconceptualisation of law-breaking as risk-taking rather than inherently 'wrong' behaviour and its consequences for the enforcement of laws based on risk assessment - the experience of being controlled by technology and of receiving what is essentially 'automated justice'. These and other issues are explored and suggested as illuminating of both the real concerns underpinning this debate and potentially instructive for future attempts to control risky behaviour both within and beyond a road safety context.

Aggressive driving behaviors and driver frustration cause accidents and fatalities. Current attempts by academic researchers and car manufacturers to combat driver frustration focus on detecting the emotional state of the driver, and then determining an appropriate reaction to that state. Recognizing driver emotion through facial, voice, and physiological cues is a difficult task in the due to light, noise, and individual differences in driving and expressive styles. Similarly, responding appropriately to affective state of the driver requires a careful implementation of a voice interface. The work presented in this dissertation targets driver frustration but shifts the technology burden away from capturing driver state to understanding the environment. Instead of studying interfaces that require precise knowledge of the driver state, the dissertation work presented here assumes that drivers will experience negative emotion based on common frustrations (e.g., traffic, being cut-off), and that the technology to detect these conditions is currently available. The dissertation study examines the effects of emotion regulation type (cognitive reappraisal vs. suppression), source (self vs. other), and timing (pre-drive vs. in-drive) on driver performance and emotional states in a between-participants design (N = 112). Regulation type strongly affected driver attitudes, but only had a minimal effect on measures of driving behavior. This suggests that the demand of the driving environment Implications for application and theory are discussed.

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