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Friday, November 26, 2021

"Human error" - the case of road safety.

"Human error" - the case of road safety. 

... the “critical reason” for a crash is not the same as the “cause”. 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/deadly-myth-human-error-causes-most-car-crashes/620808/



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Yuval Bitan is a researcher and a Human Factors engineer, specialized in ways to improve patient safety through the implementation of human factors principles in the healthcare complex working environment. Yuval was a Research Associate at the Cognitive Technologies Laboratory (University of Chicago, Illinois), HumanEra (University Health Network, Toronto, Canada) and at the University of Toronto. Yuval holds a Ph.D. in Human Factors Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel, where he teaches at the department of Health Policy and Management, and leads SimReC - The research center for simulation in healthcare.
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