Viewpoint: Traffic engineers build roads that invite crashes because they rely on outdated research and faulty data
"Can you name the truck with four-wheel drive, smells like a steak, and seats 35?"
Jun 24, 2024
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Engineering
"Can you name the truck with four-wheel drive, smells like a steak, and seats 35?"
Jun 24, 2024
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Automotive
Amazon's self-driving robotaxi unit is being investigated by the U.S. government's highway safety agency after two of its vehicles braked suddenly and were rear-ended by motorcyclists.
May 13, 2024
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In recent years, micro-optical projectors have become well established for automotive applications. These projectors enable cars to communicate with their surroundings.
May 8, 2024
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Business
Tesla is yet again undergoing scrutiny from federal regulators in the United States. The issue at hand now is whether the automotive company did enough in response to the 2023 recalls by the U.S. National Highway Traffic ...
May 6, 2024
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Most commuters have endured the ordeal of being stuck in peak-hour traffic. Trapped in a seemingly endless queue of cars crawling ever so slowly towards home is a trying part of urban life that is begrudgingly tolerated. ...
Jan 24, 2024
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Engineering
Nigeria's new works minister, David Umahi, is pushing for the use of rigid pavement in road construction, as against the flexible pavement predominantly in use. This, as the minister noted, is due to the precarious state ...
Nov 9, 2023
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Automotive
The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) has developed a "Road Pothole Filtering Program" to establish an emergency road restoration system for frequent pothole occurrences.
Sep 18, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Many of the cars currently speeding through the summer landscape are running on electricity. At the same time, fuel taxes are an important source of income for the government. So where will the money come from in the future ...
Aug 7, 2023
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Automotive
The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) developed a digital model designed to identify dangerous roads where traffic accidents frequently occur while further finding optimal measures to improve ...
Jul 27, 2023
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Researchers have proposed a novel method for counting and tracking vehicles on public roads, a development that could enhance current traffic systems and help travelers get to their destinations faster.
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Road traffic safety aims to reduce the harm (deaths, injuries, and property damage) resulting from crashes of road vehicles. Harm from road traffic crashes is greater than that from all other transportation modes (air, sea, space, off-terrain, etc.) combined.[citation needed]
Road traffic safety deals exclusively with road traffic crashes – how to reduce their number and their consequences. A road traffic crash is an event involving a road vehicle that results in harm. For reasons of clear data collection, only harm involving a road vehicle is included. A person tripping with fatal consequences on a public road is not included as a road-traffic fatality. To be counted a pedestrian fatality, the victim must be struck by a road vehicle.
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