ABSTRACT
Reducing the frequency and the consequences of accidents is a major challenge to human intelligence. In the late nineteenth century, a cultural change movement began, pointing out the Cartesian–Newtonian model's shortcomings and proposing a new, so-called holistic paradigm, holistic vision, or holistic approach. The holistic paradigm has its character expressed in the sentence: The whole is in the parts and the parts are in the whole. It contains, in admirable harmony, ancient Chinese philosophy and modern general theory of systems. A holistic approach, however, would also consider the lane's state and the signaling on man's behavior in traffic and on their motivation to maintain vehicles. The holistic approach has two complementary strategies: the reductionist to understand the factors and the systemic to understand the interactions between factors to produce accidents. A holistic analysis does not state that the cause of the traffic accident is the lane state, or the signaling, or the belt, or the driver's psychological state.
