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Door crashes are common occurrences in motorcycle-car accidents in Taiwan. Since 2013, the two-stage door opening method has been an examination item when obtaining a driver’s license in Taiwan to teach people to avoid these types of accidents. According to the investigative results of this study, half of the car drivers in Taiwan still do not know the two-stage door opening method. Furthermore, observations of driver’s two-stage door opening behavior in this study showed that men habitually use their left hand and women habitually use their right hand to open car doors. The one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed that the older the driver, the shorter their first stage car door opening distance is. This means that elderly drivers are more careful about opening their car doors. The correlation analysis showed that the body weight continuous variable has a significant and negative correlation with car door opening distance, and a significant and positive correlation exists between car door opening distance and driver’s field of vision. The results of this study can serve as a reference for future car door opening human factor design.
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The author gratefully acknowledges the financial support from the Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan (Most 104-2410-H259-046).
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Huang, CY. (2017). Observations of Drivers’ Behavior When Opening Car Door with Two Stages. In: Stanton, N., Landry, S., Di Bucchianico, G., Vallicelli, A. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 484. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41682-3_28
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