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NTSB Rear Seat Safety in Passenger Vehicles
This report discusses improving the safety of the rear seat environment in passenger vehicles is vital to the goal of preventing fatalities and mitigating injuries in automobile crashes.
Category: Safety Topics
Road Rage is Getting Worse, Not Better
If commuters only understood. That is the prevailing mentality of truck drivers when it comes to courtesy, and the lack thereof, on Florida’s highways. Jacksonville-based truckers say if people better understood the challenges of driving 18-wheelers, they’d be less inclined to spar with them on the roads. Lane changes and merging trigger the vast majority […]
US has Few Rules of the Road for Self-Driving Cars
When it comes to the fledgling world of self-driving cars, most of the country exists in a legal gray area that is unlikely to change in 2017. Nine states and the District of Columbia have laws on the books that address the cars, some of which lay out clear ground rules for permits and where […]
FMCSA Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse
FMCSA amends the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations to establish requirements for the Commercial Driver’s License Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse (Clearinghouse), a database under the Agency’s administration that will contain information about violations of FMCSA’s drug and alcohol testing program for the holders of commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs).
Feds Move to Quicken Pace of Takata Air Bag Repairs
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is moving to accelerate the pace of repairs to cars that have faulty air bag inflators made by Japanese supplier Takata. The agency said Friday that Takata must provide replacement parts “on an accelerated basis and made available first to the riskiest vehicles.” Nearly 70 million air bags with […]
Car-Stealing ‘Mystery Device’ Uncovered
The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) has gotten hold of a “mystery device” that thieves have been spotted on security cameras using to electronically open and start cars. The organization says that it obtained it through an outside security expert who purchased it overseas. It describes it as a “relay attack” unit that was originally […]
Drivers Beware: Crash Rate Spikes with Every Hour of Lost Sleep
A report released Tuesday by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety suggests that drivers who sleep only five or six hours in a 24-hour period are twice as likely to crash as drivers who get seven hours of sleep or more. And the less sleep the person behind the wheel gets, the higher the crash rate, according […]
National Highway Chief: ‘Fully Self-Driving Cars’ Decades Away
The head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) stressed to lawmakers on Tuesday that while fully autonomous cars are much further down the road, officials are working hard on cybersecurity concerns and creating a unified regulatory framework before they arrive. “Fully self-driving cars — we’re a ways off. In the last six months, […]
More Kids Left Unrestrained in Cars
Proper use of child restraints in vehicles declined in several categories from 2013 to 2015, reports the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. “Risking the safety of future generations by letting children ride unrestrained is not acceptable,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a statement. “Seat belts and car seats save lives, and need to […]
Why the Department of Transportation’s Self-Driving Car Guidelines Aren’t Enough
Ford, GM, Toyota and VW are just a handful of the car manufacturers planning to put self-driving cars on the road in the next five years. If you ask Uber or Tesla, they might say driverless cars have already arrived… which means we’re running out of time to secure one of the juiciest new targets […]