Tag: Road traffic safety

Federal gov pushes vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology

Federal gov pushes vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology

August 28, 2014 | 0 Comments

Cars that communicate with each other — in order to protect drivers and passengers — are on the horizon, reports Wired. Vehicle-to-vehicle communication (V2V), which would allow vehicles to communicate with each other using radio signals to send and receive information on each car’s speed, position and direction, is on federal regulators’ minds and summarized […]

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CA ban on driving while on the phone had no effect on accident rate

CA ban on driving while on the phone had no effect on accident rate

July 28, 2014 | 0 Comments

Although California banned handheld cell phone use in cars in 2008, it doesn’t seem to have had any effect on accidents, according to a recent study. University of Colorado, Boulder researchers studied police records of over half a million traffic accidents that happened six months before and after the ban. The research only looked at six […]

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New moves toward predictive approaches to traffic safety

New moves toward predictive approaches to traffic safety

June 25, 2014 | 0 Comments

For all the resources focused on high-crash hotspots (specific areas host to a higher-than-average number of crashes), in Minnesota, for one, there aren’t many. Expert and engineer Howard Preston, who has worked in traffic safety for 40 years, explains to blog Next City his real safety concerns: targeting scattered crashes. “Severe crashes are scattered around […]

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