US pedestrian deaths reach forty-year high
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You may soon have to pay more to drive that SUV in New York
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The history of how US school buses became yellow
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Interesting project to create a more humanizing helmet using objects associated with fragility
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Electric cars prove we need to rethink brake lights
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Is Oslo the next great cycling city?
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Car safety and fuel efficiency improvements aren't driving up the cost of cars
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Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles in the US, says Full Self-Driving Beta software may cause crashes
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The most complex system in modern cars
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eBikes face safety hurdles
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As e-bike fires rise, calls grow for education and regulation
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How Finland put traffic crashes on ice – only 219 people died on Finnish roads in 2021, or four per 100,000 residents
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US NHTSA data likely shows Teslas on Autopilot crash more than rivals
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Elon Musk’s regulatory woes mount as US moves closer to recalling Tesla’s self-driving software
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Just another pedestrian killed
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1.7 million Hondas are being investigated for phantom braking
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Tesla recalls 53,822 vehicles running "full self-driving" because they won't stop at stop signs
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How do cars fare in crash tests they're not specifically optimized for?
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GM recalls all Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles, due to fire risk from high-voltage LG batteries
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Tesla recalls 135,000 cars after pushing back against regulators
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GM will recall about seven million US pickup trucks and SUVs from the 2007-2014 model years to replace potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators
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Driving the 2021 Cadillac Escalade was one of the most stressful experiences of my life
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Tesla included in JD Power survey for the first time, and it’s bad
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Ford recalls 2.15 million US vehicles for potentially faulty door latches
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How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero – after years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019
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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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Only two road traffic deaths per 100,000 inhabitants were reported in Norway in 2019, making it the best-performing country for road safety
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Self-driving Uber vehicle that killed woman in March 2018 could not detect jaywalking pedestrians
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The complicated ethics of Tesla's Autopilot - It could save the lives of millions, but it will kill some people first
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Teddy bear fence along Copper Coast Highway poses safety risk to children, South Australia mayors warn
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The future is four wheels, cyclists be damned
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Tesla’s autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 Los Angeles Freeway crash
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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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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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Dozens of arrests in Copenhagen for drunk scooter driving
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The LED traffic light and the danger of "but sometimes!"
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Should we stop using the word 'cyclist'?
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Pedestrian deaths reach highest level in decades, US report says
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The origins of speed limits in the US
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Elon Musk announces plan to open source part of Tesla's vehicle security software
@elonmusk: Great Q&A @defcon last night. Thanks for helping make Tesla & SpaceX more secure! Planning to open-source Tesla vehicle security software for free use by other car makers. Extremely important to a safe self-driving future for all.
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Driverless cars could make our roads safer and reduce congestion. But the algorithms driving them will also have to make life-or-death decisions.
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Elon Musk ordered Tesla engineers to stop doing a critical brake test on Model 3s
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Why emergency braking systems sometimes hit parked cars and lane dividers: Recent Tesla autopilot crashes hold a lesson for the whole industry
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Tesla sedan in autopilot mode collides with parked police vehicle in Laguna Beach
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Fiat Chrysler recalls 4.8 million vehicles that could get stuck in cruise control
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America's boulevards of death
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Uber vehicle reportedly saw but ignored woman it struck
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