Mashable shares this infographic that shows how hackers can access your computer.
The New York Times takes to the New York streets to show how new research trumps traditional ideas about pedestrian and bike safety.
Pedestrians struck by cars are most often hit while in the crosswalk, with the signal on their side. Taxicabs pose a disproportionate threat to cyclists, who often compete for the .Read more...
Wired reports on how unsafe Voice to text feature against touch texting.
Voice control may be the way of the future, but a new study finds that using voice-to-text is just as unsafe as texting behind the wheel.
The study, conducted by Texas A&M’s transportation institute, had 43 participants drive a closed course. .Read more...
The Atlantic reports on a man stuck in his car running at 125mph-for an hour.
Frank Lecerf, from his home in Pont-de-Metz, near the French city of Amiens, was making his weekly trip to the grocery store in his Renault Laguna. He was going 60 miles an hour when the car’s speed dial .Read more...
Travel looks at the safest place to be seated if you ‘re unlucky enough to be involved in a plane crash.
The producers of the documentary, The Crash, arranged for a Boeing 727 carrying cameras, sensors and crash test dummies with breakable “bones” to be deliberately crashed into the Sonoran Desert .Read more...
abcNEWS reports on the worst driving distractions on the road.
In a first-of-its-kind study, Australian researchers found that children are 12 times more distracting to the driver than talking on a cell phone while at the wheel. According to their findings, the average parent takes their eyes off the road for a .Read more...
Marginal revolution looks at China’s safety markets in everything.
Chinese drivers hate to wear their safety belts. Instead, they wear specially designed clothing to pretend they are buckled up. But that won’t stop the seat-belt reminder lights and beeps, which are all extremely annoying.
It is possible to click the belt in the buckle behind your .Read more...
Business insider reports on this new device that reinvents your driving experience.
Automatic is the latest startup to garner loads of attention. CNBC‘s Jon Fortt even tweeted that it’s the “biggest idea [he's] seen since the iPhone.”
The app monitors your driving habits and makes suggestions on how to get better mileage and .Read more...
