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On a driving hazard problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Yongji Wang and
Kaiyuan Cai
Yongji Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4ASCurrent address: Centre for Systems and Control, Mechanical Engineering Department, Glasgow University, James Watt Building, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
Kaiyuan Cai
Affiliation:
Department of Automatic Control, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, 100083, P. R. China
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A driving hazard problem was proposed by Baylis [1] and revised by Bender [2]. The problem can be described as follows: when making a right turn on British roadways, one moves to the right as far as possible on one's own side of the roadway and then turns. Unfortunately, the rear of the vehicle swings leftward as the right turn is begun - toward the unsuspecting driver passing on the left (Figure 1). This can be quite noticeable if the turning vehicle is a long bus. Hence the driving hazard problem - just how far will the back corner of the bus (P in Figure 1) swing toward the left as the bus driver negotiates the right turn - was proposed.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 83 , Issue 497 , July 1999, pp. 226 - 236
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1999

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