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Show Computer works for road safety merits is the intersection, where some 25 per cent of all traffic deaths occur year after year, despite the growth of limited-access highways, which do not have intersections. A system that simulates in a computer the performance of a driver and his car at complex intersections has been developed devel-oped by Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory to study techniques for improving driver capability capabil-ity and as an aid in designing safer highways. The computer model of various var-ious types of intersections represents rep-resents an altogether new approach ap-proach for describing and simulating human behavior while driving, Dr. Edwin A. Kidd, acting head of the Laboratory's Lab-oratory's Transportation Research Re-search Department, said. More specifically, the computer model numerically describes in detail what the driver sees, the decisions he makes and how he responds as he approaches, passes through and leaves an intersection controlled by various vari-ous traffic devices, he noted. In fact, the computer model can even simulate the careless driver and predict intersection collisions. Dr. Kidd said one of the most neglected aspects of our roadways and their environ- |