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Experts predict that our cars will one day routinely “talk” to one another with wireless communication devices, possibly preventing huge numbers of traffic accidents. On Tuesday, the world’s largest study of connected car technology launched in Ann Arbor, Mich. The technology is designed to help drivers avert all sorts of common dangers on the road. […]
An early crop of advanced crash avoidance technologies includes some clear success stories when it comes to preventing crashes, insurance claim analyses show. Forward collision avoidance systems, particularly those that can brake autonomously, along with adaptive headlights, which shift direction as the driver steers, show the biggest crash reductions in the studies by the Highway […]
In October 2009, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) signed a settlement agreement with the Teamsters Union, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety and Public Citizen in attempt to end the latest round of litigation over the hours of service (HOS) regulations for truck drivers. As a condition of the settlement, DOT officials agreed to ‘review […]
A Stanford University research team has designed a high-efficiency charging system that uses magnetic fields to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet apart. The long-term goal of the research is to develop an all-electric highway that wirelessly charges cars and trucks as they cruise down the road. The new technology […]
The purpose of this report is to document and further explain the results of an analysis of data from 2008 through the most current data that were available within CARE as of the date of this report. Note that while there were a very large number of variables/values that were found to be significant, these seemed […]
A State Farm Insurance poll found that 61 percent of teenagers surveyed said their parent had been distracted at least once by a phone while the teens were learning how to drive. And 53 percent of the parents admitted to the distraction. In the survey, 54 percent of the teens say they’ve seen parents using a phone […]
Road Safety 101 is an online certificate aimed at teaching the fundamentals of road safety. By completing this course, students will be able to understand the elements of successful road safety programs, identify contributing crash factors and how they interact as well as gain a better understanding of road safety data collection and systems.
An extended family of 10 was traveling from Chicago to New Jersey when their minivan hit a deer on the Indiana Toll Road and then stopped or slowed, authorities said. The van was then hit by a semitrailer going about 65 mph. Seven members of the family — three adults and for children — died […]
The project entitled “A National Model for the Evaluation of CMV Selective Enforcement Programs” had the goal of describing best practices for the evaluation of Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) projects. The methodology and examples are typically not restricted to formal TACT projects, and they generally apply to any project involving selective enforcement and […]