by dankeelan | Jan 12, 2023 | Electric Vehicles, Featured, Safety
The head of the National Transportation Safety Board expressed concern Wednesday about the safety risks that heavy electric vehicles pose if they collide with lighter vehicles. The official, Jennifer Homendy, raised the issue in a speech in Washington to the...
by dankeelan | Nov 17, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety
Two new U.S. studies show that automatic emergency braking can cut the number of rear-end automobile crashes in half, and reduce pickup truck crashes by more than 40%. The studies released Tuesday, one by a government-auto industry partnership and the other by the...
by dankeelan | Nov 10, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Safety
The University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Center for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) demonstrated its autonomous car in live traffic on Kirchberg today, Thursday, November 3, 2022. This represents the first time a single-family autonomous car has...
by dankeelan | Oct 27, 2022 | Electric Vehicles, Safety
A small number of electric vehicles in Florida burst into flame during flooding caused by Hurricane Ian, and the fires are raising awareness about a previously little-known safety issue for the millions of Americans who have bought or are thinking of...
by dankeelan | Oct 13, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Safety
Many drivers continue to rely on partially automated systems in their cars as if they are fully autonomous. This is what a new study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows and the numbers seem very worrying despite widespread warnings from automakers,...
by dankeelan | Oct 6, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety
Waymo’s latest effort to prove that autonomous vehicles are safer than silly, accident-prone humans involves creating a virtual representation of a hyper-attentive driver and then pitting this fake person against its own AVs in a series of simulated tests to see which...
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