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When Google’s self-driving program spin-off, Waymo, began offering to let Phoenix-area families try out its vehicle service last month, it touched off what a new study is calling “a historic revolution in transportation.” While the number of Americans using all forms of ride-sharing — autonomous or otherwise — is currently quite small, RethinkX, an independent […]
NHTSA: There were 22,441 passenger vehicle occupants who died in traffic crashes and an estimated 2.18 million passenger vehicle occupants who were injured. Passenger vehicles made up 93 percent of registered vehicles and accounted for 90 percent of total vehicle miles traveled (VMT). An estimated 11,070,000 vehicles were involved in police-reported traffic crashes; 96 percent (10,656,000) […]
NHTSA: In 2016, seat belt use in the United States ranged from 70.2 percent in New Hampshire, to 97.2 percent in Georgia. Nineteen States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands achieved belt use rates of 90 percent or higher. These results are from probability-based observational surveys conducted by the […]
The GHSA has released a study on drug-impaired driving and possible ways law-enforcement and legislature can assist with reducing drug-impaired driving.
A 38-year-old man was killed Saturday night in an ATV crash in Coosa County. Corporal Jess Thornton said the preliminary investigation indicates alcohol and speed were factors in the crash.
Driving while on drugs was associated with more deaths in 2015 than driving with alcohol in one’s system, a new report found. Still, some safety experts caution that drunken driving remains a bigger problem and say that “drugged driving,” as the report refers to it, needs more research. Positive drug tests were more common than […]
The US Department on Transportation has released a policy guide in hopes of increasing safety for bikes and pedestrians.This policy guidebook provides local and state agencies with the tools to create a solid policy platform to support the creation of multimodal transportation networks for users of all ages and abilities.
The USDOT has released a report that describes the methods used to estimate and evaluate exposure risk in pedestrian and bicyclist safety analyses. One definition of a risk was the measure of the probability of a crash to occur given exposure to potential crash events.
Visibility conditions at the time of a crash are rarely documented at a high level of detail. While vision is a key component of how drivers acquire information, a direct relationship between quantified levels of visibility related issues and safety (in terms of crashes) should be identified.
Last year, when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released its autonomous vehicle guidelines, the document helped lay out a strategy for how the government will adopt self-driving vehicles. NHTSA suggested that the vehicle itself should be certified safe as a part of its federal motor vehicle safety standards and that states should remain […]