Human Factors in Driving, Vehicle Seating & Rear Vision

Includes papers from three sessions of the 1998 SAE International Congress and Exposition: Human factors issues in vehicle seating, human factors in driving, and rear vision. The 24 papers emphasize industrial practice in seating comfort enhancement, and cover broad areas from seating accommodation, seat component characteristics, static and dynamic seat comfort, and environmental comfort. Other topics include seat noise absorption; variable temperature seats; distance perception and driver acceptance of nonplanar rearview mirrors; and optic mirror devices designed for automotive exterior mirror applications. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.