The findings highight that under conditions of high investment in job and work design, communication and selection practices, drivers reported poorer driving behaviour.
The popular Palmer is already well known having been a regular practice driver with last year's Lotus team.
He laughed at himself for being the designated practice driver — in his job as a research analyst for an investment bank he has been able to work at home and meet the weekday evening demands — while his wife, Ana, handles game travel (though the academy team travels by bus to distant out-of-state games).
All during practice, drivers run just behind and just in front of other cars.
To practice, drivers whipped around the orange marker cones at a slalom driving clinic, whizzed through a timed practice course and got quick lessons in accelerating hard, then slamming on the brakes.
The tests included school, college, and professional exams; actual and practice drivers' theory tests from 10 US states; newspaper quizzes on current events, sports, and celebrities; a Cosmopolitan quiz ("50 Guy Phrases"); and safety quizzes for electricity, condoms, and food poisoning.
Exacerbating the problem: Autonomous vehicles are likely to need assistance with the most challenging driving scenarios -- think slippery streets -- that out-of-practice drivers would likely be poorly prepared to handle.
Thus, economics, not KOVP, may be the practice drivers in Spain.
Ideally, over the course of the practice, drivers would have established the different task demands and affordances of the track layout so that they would correctly perceive that the reading task could be completed within the low-demand zone.
The study also explores the value given to safety by senior level management as a moderator of the relationship between HPWS practices and driver behaviour.
