The New York Times presented an in-depth review of highway work zone safety and related accidents today. The article, entitled “Efforts Lag at Making Highway Work Zones Safer,” discussed some of the current issues:
The deadly accident was one of thousands in highway work zones across the country that have killed .Read more...
The Telegraph is reporting a scientific formula for perfect parallel parking. Developed by Vauxhall Motors and math professor Simon Blackburn (who evidently have time on their hands for things such as this):
The formula gives the minimum extra length the parking space needs to be, over the length .Read more...
Volvo is testing a new pedestrian-crash-prevention system that automatically brakes for pedestrians. The New York Times gives a nice review of the system and explains some of Volvo’s motivation.
In 2008, 4,378 pedestrians were killed, and some 69,000 were injured, in traffic accidents in the United States, according to the National .Read more...
The Transportation Department is reporting a significant drop in the number of deaths on American roads. The risk of dying in a collision on an American road has dropped 18% since 2005. The primary reason may be the continued improvements in automotive safety, but a number of factors contribute to .Read more...
Borne of necessity, tourist creations, or mutations of evolution, the world is filled with unique roadways. Popular Mechanics has rounded up the “World’s 18 Strangest Roadways” in a fascinating list. I find their website incredibly frustrating to navigate and tedious to click through, but a number of the .Read more...
The New York Times is running a series “Driven to Distraction: Ignoring Red Flags” with some industry background.
The federal government estimated in 2007 that 11 percent of drivers were talking on their phones at any given time. But that success has come at a cost. Researchers at Harvard have estimated .Read more...
