Category: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Jun 4, 2016 2:12 PM

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Growing momentum for self-driving cars worries safety advocates

By Brian Joseph
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On Valentine’s Day in Silicon Valley, one of Google’s experimental, self-driving cars sideswiped a city bus at 2 miles an hour. The incident marked the first time an autonomous car contributed to an accident on a public road, but did nothing to diminish the Obama administration’s enthusiasm for driverless vehicles.
May 25, 2016 11:33 AM

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In 2015, motorcycle crashes helped drive highway death toll to highest level in years

By Paul Feldman
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Last year was a bad one for motorcyclists, with a new estimate showing that 5,010 bikers were killed in crashes nationwide, the worst death toll in seven years. And Florida led the nation.
Mar 26, 2016 12:04 PM

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Regulators, automakers urged to warn parents about flawed seats

By Myron Levin
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For decades, safety regulators and the auto industry have known that even in a moderate speed rear-end crash a driver or front seat passenger can slide out of the seat belt and be launched headfirst into the backseat, badly injuring a backseat passenger or being paralyzed or killed himself. Since the 1990s, authorities have instructed parents to put young children in the backseat to avoid injury from an inflating airbag. But critics say they have failed to provide another crucial piece of information: Due to the risk of seat failure in a rear collision, the safest place for a child is behind an unoccupied seat, or else behind the lightest person in the front.