News

Read the latest news and announcements from traffic safety interest groups and about traffic safety topics here.

Development and Demonstration of an In-Vehicle Lane Departure Warning System using Standard GPS Technology

  • August 10th, 2021

A lane departure warning system (LDWS) has significant potential to reduce crashes on roads. Most existing commercial LDWSs use some kind of image processing techniques with or without Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and/or high-resolution digital maps to detect unintentional lane departures. However, the performance of such systems is compromised in unfavorable weather or road […]

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NHTSA: Driver Assistance Technologies

NHTSA: Driver Assistance Technologies

  • August 6th, 2021

Driver assistance technologies hold the potential to reduce traffic crashes and save thousands of lives each year. In 2019, 36,096 people died in motor vehicle crashes — many of these crashes were tied to human error. Learn more about driver assistance technologies, how they can help you, and what you should know about these technologies […]

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Alabama Road Safety Conference: Early Bird Registration

Alabama Road Safety Conference: Early Bird Registration

  • August 5th, 2021

The Alabama Road Safety Conference is designed to strengthen the knowledge of available tools, countermeasures, and processes to improve safety within your jurisdiction. The conference will highlight methods to identify roadway safety issues and appropriate countermeasures. The Conference agenda was developed to emphasize the implementation of the safety process through all stages  of roadway planning, […]

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Labor Day 2021: Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over

Labor Day 2021: Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over

  • August 3rd, 2021

The Labor Day holiday weekend is one of the deadliest times of the year in terms of drunk-driving fatalities. With NHTSA’s support, state and local law enforcement agencies across the nation are stepping-up enforcement to keep communities safe by putting an end to drunk driving. Sobering Statistics Approximately one-third of all traffic crash fatalities in […]

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Child Safety

Child Safety

  • August 3rd, 2021

You’ve spent hours researching safe cars and car seats, and finally selected the right choices for your family. You’ve even had your car seat inspected at an inspection station to make sure you installed it correctly. But did you know there are other dangers in and around your vehicle that could seriously harm or even […]

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Trucks Move Past Cars on the Road to Autonomy

  • July 27th, 2021

In 2016, three veterans of the still young autonomous vehicle industry formed Aurora, a startup focused on developing self-driving cars. Partnerships followed with major automakers, including Hyundai and Volkswagen. CEO Chris Urmson said at the time that the link-ups would help the company bring “mobility as a service” to urban areas—Uber-like rides without a human behind the wheel. But […]

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Ford, Argo AI to Deploy Autonomous Vehicles on Lyft Network

  • July 22nd, 2021

DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. and a self-driving vehicle company it partly owns will join with the Lyft ride-hailing service to offer autonomous rides on the Lyft network. The service using Ford vehicles and a driving system developed by Pittsburgh-based Argo AI will begin in Miami later this year and start in Austin, Texas, […]

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ATV Related Deaths in East Alabama: Two in 48 hours

  • July 22nd, 2021

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) – In East Alabama, the spotlight is on all terrain vehicle (ATV) accidents, with more and more young people killed this summer, two deaths coming just in the last few days. “Respect the vehicle you’re on. Respect the laws of the road, and wear a helmet.”, warned Lee County Coroner, Bill Harris. […]

Travel in the United States Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • July 16th, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic, the associated policy interventions such as stay-at-home orders, and the associated economic recession all had profound influences on how much Americans traveled and how they traveled in 2020. Data from sources such as vehicle counts and cell phone records have been used to estimate the overall magnitude of the change in travel […]

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