Coverage map · what's on disk and what isn't

Behavior.

What the driver does — the hinge between setting and crash.

The BEHAVIOR group: distraction, impairment, fatigue, speed choice and restraint use — the avoidance-stage hinge where only a change in behavior reaches the crash chain. FARS records the police-coded residue; true behavior lives in the Research / naturalistic layer.

50% backed by real data — 0 covered 4 partial 0 blindspots

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Coverage map

Distraction & inattention

partial

source fars_distract (2010-2024, police-coded)

Blindspot: Massive undercount; true glance behavior is naturalistic-only.

Impairment (alcohol/drug/fatigue)

partial

source persons.drinking/alc_result/drugs (backfilled); fars_drimpair

Speed choice

partial

source vehicles.speeding_related; TRAV_SP (noisy)

Restraint use

partial

source persons.restraint_use (backfilled 2010+; pre-2010 recode)

Known blindspots — future work

What we do not yet have. These are explicit so the gaps stay visible and become the agenda for future DB and knowledge-integration work.

Behavior is the richest factor for safety yet the worst-captured: FARS sees only police-coded residue, never the perception-cognition-action process — that bridges to the Research / naturalistic layer.