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18 votes
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Train driver and rail worker dead after passenger train derails near Wallan, north of Melbourne
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‘Mr. Bob,’ 88-year-old crossing guard, saves two children’s lives before sacrificing his own
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How would you reduce speeding by car drivers?
I was reading this twitter post and it made me wonder if you have any ideas to stop speeding by car drivers? Have any of these ideas been tried anywhere? I'm also interested in unintended...
I was reading this twitter post and it made me wonder if you have any ideas to stop speeding by car drivers? Have any of these ideas been tried anywhere? I'm also interested in unintended consequences.
https://twitter.com/agnessjonsson/status/1229103764843438086?s=20
Agnes @agnessjonsson
fact of the day: Sweden once experimented with a “speed camera lottery”. Those who drove within the speed limit were automatically entered into a drawing where the prize fund came from fines that speeders paid.
They tested it in a few different cities and I haven’t read the results of each one, but in Stockholm the average speed on the selected road decreased by 22 percent.
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Book Review: Human Compatible
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A lawyer who represented hundreds of victims in the Jack in the Box E coli case in the 1990s is now taking aim at salmonella, which over the past decade has become the most dangerous bacteria in meat
7 votes -
Oslo saw zero pedestrian and cyclist deaths in 2019 – reducing the number of cars reduced the number of traffic fatalities
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What I learned in avalanche school: I wanted to be prepared for the worst nature could throw at me. But the real threat turned out to be human
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How do you feel about safer kitchen knives?
Kitchen knives are frequently used to stab people. This results in serious injury or often death. Most stabbing murders are perpetrated with kitchen knives, reflecting the huge numbers of knives...
Kitchen knives are frequently used to stab people. This results in serious injury or often death. Most stabbing murders are perpetrated with kitchen knives, reflecting the huge numbers of knives available (most homes have one), and where most murders happen (in the home). (I'm talking about UK here).
Kitchen knives have a cutting edge and usually a sharp piercing point. There's nothing that can be done to make the cutting edge safer. But we can look at the pointy tip.
Pointy tips are useful, but we tend to find that only professional chefs or experienced home cooks use them. Most people cooking at home don't use or need such a pointy tip.
There are some companies releasing knives without the pointy tip, and I'm interested to know what you think.
https://twitter.com/JohnHMCrichton/status/1209095901102387200?s=20
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Things I won't work with: The higher states of bromine
10 votes -
US FAA engineers objected to Boeing’s removal of some 787 lightning protection measures
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US FAA chief says Boeing 737 Max recertification process to stretch into 2020
8 votes -
The Therac-25: Thirty years later
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Only two road traffic deaths per 100,000 inhabitants were reported in Norway in 2019, making it the best-performing country for road safety
10 votes -
The US FAA is examining whether the trend toward smaller seats and less personal space on today’s planes poses safety risks to those aboard in the event of an emergency
14 votes -
Amazon doesn’t report its warehouse injury rates — but we have an inside look
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Behind the Smiles - Amazon’s internal injury records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for speed
8 votes -
Car seat manufacturers and retailers suggest that secondhand ones are unsafe and that they expire every six years or so, but finding any data that supports this is difficult
16 votes -
Self-driving Uber vehicle that killed woman in March 2018 could not detect jaywalking pedestrians
15 votes -
Airbnb pledges to improve platform safety, including verifying 100% of hosts and listings by the end of next year
8 votes -
The complicated ethics of Tesla's Autopilot - It could save the lives of millions, but it will kill some people first
8 votes -
One supermarket chain in Finland has an idea to address food waste – S-market has started holding 'happy hours' for products nearing expiration date
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For drivers, roads are safer than ever – but for people on foot, they are getting deadlier. Car companies and Silicon Valley claim that they have the solution. But is that too good to be true?
10 votes -
Crash course: How Boeing's managerial revolution created the 737 Max disaster
12 votes -
Teddy bear fence along Copper Coast Highway poses safety risk to children, South Australia mayors warn
5 votes -
The future is four wheels, cyclists be damned
12 votes -
Mystery disease kills dozens of dogs across Norway as officials scramble to find cause
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Low-paid American workers produce tear gas in potentially dangerous conditions. It's then shipped to Hong Kong where it's used against pro-democracy protesters.
17 votes -
Tesla’s autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 Los Angeles Freeway crash
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How ‘safety first’ ethos is destabilizing US society
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Gothenburg port in Sweden has installed the country's first automated sobriety check to prevent drivers over the alcohol limit from venturing on to its road network
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Currently, slaughterhouses in the US are allowed to process a maximum of 1,106 hogs per hour. Pork producers want to do away with the speed limit and reduce the number of federal inspectors.
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Why speed kills cities: US cities are dropping urban speed limits in an effort to boost safety and lower crash rates. But the benefits of less-rapid urban mobility don’t end there
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Feds told Tesla to stop making “misleading statements” on Model 3 safety
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Home elevators have killed and injured kids for decades. Safety regulators won’t order a simple fix.
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Dozens of arrests in Copenhagen for drunk scooter driving
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Tests on Boeing's 737 Max have revealed a new safety risk unrelated to two fatal crashes that led to the grounding of the aircraft
11 votes -
The LED traffic light and the danger of "but sometimes!"
7 votes -
The case for room-temperature foods: There are many dishes and delicacies that benefit from being served at room temperature
9 votes -
Do better bike lanes keep drivers safer?
3 votes -
If only experienced cyclists feel safe in a bike lane, then is it a bike lane at all? In Vancouver, a shift to “AAA” (all ages and abilities) bike lanes
15 votes -
Amid safety complaints, police launch crackdown on illegal homeless camps in Kakaako
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Banned bread: Why does the US allow banned additives that Europe says are unsafe?
15 votes -
How greed and corruption blew up South Korea’s nuclear industry
6 votes -
Making playgrounds a little more dangerous
12 votes -
Will gene-edited food be government regulated?
3 votes -
Washington Attorney General: Amazon must remove toxic school supplies, kid’s jewelry from marketplace nationwide, pay AG's office $700,000
8 votes -
In car-choked Brussels, the pedestrians are winning
6 votes -
The curious tale of the St. Louis street barriers
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Workers at a Boeing 787 Dreamliner plant in South Carolina have complained of defective manufacturing, debris left on planes and pressure to not report violations
18 votes