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Drive on a city’s streets at night and you’re guided by artificial lights: glowing traffic signals beckoning you forward, the headlights of a car trailing you, a sign warning of work ahead. Artificial lights may soon guide your car, too: In the quest for cars that understand the world around them and respond intelligently, a […]
The Alabama Department of Public Safety, along with the Alabama Trucking Association, are participating in the “Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks” campaign to reduce aggressive driving between passenger and large commercial vehicles. Among the violations that are the main focus of the ongoing program are following too closely, improper lane use, drivers cutting off others, […]
This short ad from Volkswagen serves as a reminder to not use cell phones while driving, and should encourage you to put a cell phone blocking application on your phone so that the temptation to use the phone and drive doesn’t exist!
The total estimated number of non-occupational, operational ATV-related, emergency department-treated injuries to drivers or passengers of ATVs between January 1, 2010 and August 31, 2010 is 71,800. Extrapolated annually, the estimated number of non-occupational, operational ATV-related, emergency department-treated injuries to drivers or passengers of ATVs for 2010 is 101,000. View PDF
A combined forward collision and lane departure warning system available on the Honda Accord is reducing insurance claims, a new HLDI analysis shows. The results are even better than expected based on previous studies of such technology on luxury vehicles. In the first real-world study of a crash avoidance system on a high-volume, nonluxury vehicle, […]
The primary goals of Safe Home Alabama III were to increase your knowledge of efforts to reduce roadway related fatalities and serious injuries in Alabama, to solicit your feedback on the second edition of the Alabama Strategic Highway Safety plan, and to enlist support for the Toward Zero Deaths Safe Driving Revolution, so that we […]
As part of the Center for Advanced Public Safety (CAPS) at The University of Alabama’s ongoing studies to improve traffic safety in Alabama and the nation, a study was conducted to focus on the dramatic increase in crashes that occurred in Alabama as a result of the rare ice and snow storm that occurred beginning […]
SafeHomeAlabama does not endorse any manufacturers of blocking devices. We applaud all of their efforts to provide the means for greater safety through the reduction of distractions from electronic devices. We urge parents and other who are concerned to evaluate all of the following options: txtBlocker Set up “No-Cell Zones” to disable functions Track phone’s […]
The National Law Enforcement Liaison Program (NLELP) has released the latest version of its quarterly LEL Newsletter, which is designed to support the NLELP with information, best practices, training, events, news, and articles to keep the state LEL network current on highway safety issues and activities
Backup cameras have become ubiquitous on all varieties of cars– from the most affordable subcompacts to the priciest of exotics– but the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration just issued a long-awaited ruling that will make the technology legally required on every sub-10,000 pound vehicle by May of 2018. “Safety is our highest priority,” U.S. Department […]