CarFit is a new program funded, in part, by the AARP that seeks to improve safety among senior drivers.
David S. Loughran and The New York Times debate traffic safety and senior drivers:
It is undeniable that physical and cognitive degeneration at older ages compromises driving ability. Research conducted by .Read more...
Joseph B. White at the Wall Street Journal looks at the decline in car crash deaths:
The number of drivers involved in fatal accidents who were eating, talking on a phone or otherwise distracted rose 42% from 2005 to 2008. But that’s just one way to read a new .Read more...
A Wall Street Journal article, ‘The Key to Safer Roads‘, discussed the number one cause of accidental death in the United States: car accidents.
Adrian Lund, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, is lobbying for a review of safety priorities for the Department of Transportation.
“There’s nothing rational about the .Read more...
From the Google Blog post:
Our goal is to help prevent traffic accidents, free up people’s time and reduce carbon emissions by fundamentally changing car use.
So we have developed technology for cars that can drive themselves. Our automated cars, manned by trained operators, just drove from our Mountain .Read more...
The New York Times hosted an online debate over the question “Do we tolerate too many traffic deaths?”
Adrian K. Lund:
Compared with the Toyota controversy, there is no clamor for Congressional action calling for tough enforcement against speeding. There is no victims’ advocacy group urging installation of speed .Read more...
The Allstate Foundation recently conducted a new survey, Shifting Teen Attitudes: The State of Teen Driving 2009.
Texting is teen’s biggest distraction behind the wheel:
More than 49% of teens report texting as a distraction, up from 31% in 2005 82% of teens report using cell phones .Read more...USA Today has an article on Oprah Winfrey’s new public service campaign:
Today is Oprah’s national “No-Phone Zone Day,” a grassroots campaign that is asking all Americans to be kind and save lives by not using their cell phones — texting or dialing by hand — while driving. She .Read more...
The headline in USA Today reads, “Traffic deaths down, but not low enough.” But what else can be done?
The approach is called Toward Zero Deaths, based on a philosophy that even one road death is morally and ethically unacceptable. The goal: to alter behaviors that cause fatalities, such .Read more...
Law enforcement in New York have added to their arsenal in the battle against distracted driving with a new, barely marked, Ghost Car.
Michael Wilson of the New York Times writes:
The car, a 2009 Crown Victoria, joined the fleet two months ago. It is not an unmarked police car, but .Read more...
