Outline of my Seventh Oral Presentation

The Risky Businesses of Driving

This is a presentation of Driving Lessons, J. Peter Rothe, University of Alberta Press,

2002, p 105-119 by Peter E.S. Freund & George Martin

By Jordyn Shark

Instructions for this Oral Presentations can be found at:

I. The Background, Facts and Figures, and information on Autocentric societies

A. The Automobile as a dominate human means of mobility

B. The US rates highest on Auto Dependence

C. Growing rates of dependence in Western Europe and Canada

D. Requires the building of roadways

E. Includes rail systems and other forms of public transportation

II. Risky Vehicles, Traffic Fatalities and Injuries

A. 999,000 traffic deaths in 1990 which is 2% of all deaths making it the ninth leading cause

B. Leading Cause of Death for men 15 to 44

C. A high amount of people killed by autos are not occupants of the vehicle

i. pedestrian and cyclist account for 19.3% of deaths involving autos

III. Three Interacting components of ecology of Driving

A. spatial-temporal relationships among vehicles or platforms

B. drivers and other occupants

C. non occupants with drivers

Helpful Web links

http://www.itai.org/