Survive the Drive: A Guide to Keeping Everyone on the Road Alive

Driving is risky business. Only cancer, heart attacks, and strokes cause more unintentional deaths among the general population. In this book Tom Dingus, one of the foremost authorities on driving safety, tells you how to reduce your risk of accident while on the road. Dingus directs the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI), which is home to the largest group of driving safety researchers in the world. In Survive the Drive he brings together decades of transportation safety research with personal anecdotes from his own time behind the wheel to create an entertaining guide that gives you all of the information you need to keep yourself and those around you safe on the road.Tom Dingus has been conducting transportation safety research for more than 35 years. As Director of VTTI, he and his team of researchers and engineers pioneered the naturalistic driving study research method, and they are working to ensure the safe development and deployment of the next generation of vehicular technology. Mindy Buchanan-King is a project associate at VTTI. For the past 11 years, she has turned “engineer-speak” into impactful articles and award-winning publications.