Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...onset of uncontrollable violent behavior, an understandable but at present little understood disorder, almost certainly contributes to a significant number of automobile crashes. The National Institute of Mental Health should establish a center for the study of violent behavior in response to increasing scientific interest in maladaptive behavior of this kind...
Research findings increasingly demonstrate that alcohol is involved in a large percentage of automobile crashes. While a number of the drivers involved are young persons and social drinkers, a very substantial proportion are, in fact, alcoholics. Traditional punitive measures can be expected to have little effect on behavior that arises from illness. The problem requires a massive federal program concentrating on the disease of alcoholism...
...vehicles themselves not so much in initiating crashes, but in determining the injuries that do occur in the accident process. Yet this too can be a distorting process if it draws attention away from the driver altogether, for it can hardly be doubted that personal characteristics affect driving behavior and that for some portion of the driving population this is a determining factor...
...less value here than that of "intent" or "objective," in the sense that for many persons some of the time, and for some persons most of the time, driving is a form of aggression. It is a socially approved, or at least provided, outlet for violent behavior. Some years ago, the British novelist L.P. Hartley envisioned a future world in which public automobile accidents were staged much as the ancient Romans once held gladiatorial games. Certainly the constant broadcasting of the "holiday death toll" over festivals such as Christmas has had something of this quality...
Certainly automobile manufacturers, especially in their advertising directed to young consumers, have unabashedly associated their products with various forms of violent or aggressive behavior, and continue to do so. The contrast between the formal "safe driving" advise that the manufacturers make available to the public and the message of some of their advertising suggests that this is indeed conscious and deliberate company policy. Thus, a driving pamphlet issued by General Motors declares...