Abstract
From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents obtained the followingquote: “For automobile drivers, risk experienced while driving is a serious concern. A driver may, forexample, want to mitigate risk by avoiding certain routes that have poor visibility, poor lines of sight,unprotected left turns, sharp curves, risk of collision with other vehicles, risk of collision with animals, etc. Given a choice among multiple available routes between a given origin and destination, the driver mightprefer to use the safest of the available routes, even if the safest route is slightly longer in terms of time,distance, or both.