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Pull up to a fast-charging station with a low charge and it’ll be 20-60 minutes until you’re back on the road with a nearly full battery. Plug in at home on a lower-voltage connection and you’re looking at a charging time of multiple hours. Electric-vehicle startup Fisker has an ingenious solution to ease that pain. Rather […]
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) support drivers with some driving tasks. However, drivers may lack appropriate knowledge about ADAS (referred to as their mental model), which can translate to drivers misusing or mistrusting the technologies, especially in situations beyond the capability of the system (i.e., edge cases). Past research suggests that mental models may be […]
A proposal led by The University of Alabama (UA) to strengthen the Deep South’s role in production and support of electric vehicles (EVs) was selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for further development. As automakers bring more EVs into production, add more computational power and continue to integrate automation, the entire transportation ecosystem must change to meet new […]
Traffic agencies are seeking solutions to the rise in pedestrian fatalities. A traffic control treatment that is gaining use is the pedestrian- or school-crossing warning sign with light-emitting diodes (LEDs) embedded in the borders (called LED-Em in this report). View the full study here.
Driving over the speed limit endangers all road users. By maintaining a safe speed on our roads, CMV drivers are able to better control their large vehicles and carefully react to changing road conditions, like traffic or weather impacts. The action is simple: maintain safe speeds to help save lives. For more information on this campaign, […]
The number of electric vehicles on the road increases exponentially every year. Due to the quieter nature of these vehicles when operating at low speeds, there is significant concern that pedestrians and bicyclists will be at increased risk of vehicle collisions. This research explores the detectability of six electric vehicle acoustic additive sounds produced by […]
Drowsy driving is a common phenomenon that increases the risk for fatal and injurious crashes. Technological innovations in the form of driver monitoring and notification systems may offer potential to reduce crashes due to drowsy driving. These systems monitor the driver’s drowsy driving state and issue alerts when the driver is classified by the system […]
Owners of General Motors’ electric vehicles will have access to Tesla’s Supercharger network, the companies announced Thursday, two weeks after Tesla struck a similar deal with Ford. Why it matters: It’s a landmark deal that could jump-start EV adoption. Driving the news: GM said it will adopt Tesla’s connector design into its EVs beginning in 2025. Read […]
Campus safety is the goal of the Troy University’s police department, and they say that job has gotten a little easier thanks to newly installed license plate readers. For the past four months, police have used 12 cameras installed across campus to track those driving onto campus. Those cameras are made by the company Flock. […]
In recent years, some localities have removed highways or built structures known as “highway caps” over sections of highways to repurpose the land for community or economic development. GAO identified 21 projects to remove or cap highways that received federal funding from fiscal years 2012 through 2021, the most current data available at the time […]