Machine‐learning approach to predict on‐road driving ability in healthy older people

• Published in: Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences Vol. 74; no. 9; pp. 488 - 495
• Main Authors: Yamamoto, Yasuharu, Hirano, Jinichi, Yoshitake, Hiroshi, Negishi, Kazuno, Mimura, Masaru, Shino, Motoki, Yamagata, Bun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Melbourne John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 01.09.2020; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Accidents; Acuity; aged; Auditory discrimination learning; automobile driving; Cognitive ability; distracted driving; Drivers licenses; Driving ability; Learning algorithms; Machine learning; Older people; Risk factors; support vector machine

Aim In Japan, fatal traffic accidents due to older drivers are on the rise. Considering that approximately half the older drivers who have caused fatal accidents are cognitively normal healthy people, it has been required to detect older drivers who are cognitively normal but at high risk of having...