Industry Update: Painted Bike Lanes Being Replaced With Safer Alternatives
Bike lanes are evolving. Cities are increasingly changing them to make them safer in light of fatal crashes involving cyclists and cars. From Boston to San Francisco and New York…
Industry Update: Driver Beware
Driver Beware: Dangerous debris in the road or from an unsecured load falling off other vehicles has been blamed for more than 200,000 crashes on U.S. roads between 2011 and…
Industry Update: Why do Jersey beachgoers keep walking out into traffic?
It's a typical beach day out on Atlantic Avenue, which means the usual pedestrian chaos. Beachgoers crossing the many streets without traffic lights assume the cars will stop: The 2010…
Industry Update: Most small SUV headlights rate poor in IIHS evaluations
ARLINGTON, Va. — Not a single small SUV out of 21 tested earns a good rating in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's headlight evaluations, and only four are available…
Industry Update: Heavy Vehicle Truck Data
Robert S. Kinder, Jr., Mechanical Engineer :::: Event data recorders (EDR) have been a hot topic since late 2012 when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed a rule…
Industry Update: Keep on Truckin’
Self-driving big rigs on U.S. highways? It’s possible. Picture an 18-wheel truck barreling down the highway with 80,000 pounds of cargo and no one but a robot at the wheel.…
Industry Update: FAA on the Verge of Major Changes in the UAS Regulations
In April 2016, the FAA held a UAS Symposium, where among other topics, it discussed the current state of the proposed Small UAS Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). "The small…