seatpos {faraway}

Car seat position depending driver size

Description

Car drivers like to adjust the seat position for their own comfort. Car designers would find it helpful to know where different drivers will position the seat depending on their size and age. Researchers at the HuMoSim laboratory at the University of Michigan collected data on 38 drivers.

Format

The dataset contains the following variables

Age

Age in years

Weight

Weight in lbs

HtShoes

Height in shoes in cm

Ht

Height bare foot in cm

Seated

Seated height in cm

Arm

lower arm length in cm

Thigh

Thigh length in cm

Leg

Lower leg length in cm

hipcenter

horizontal distance of the midpoint of the hips from a fixed location in the car in mm

Source

"Linear Models in R" by Julian Faraway, CRC Press, 2004