Amazon Plans AI-Powered Cameras in Delivery Vans to Improve Safety February 4, 2021 Amazon.com has revealed plans to install AI-powered video cameras in its branded delivery vans, in a move that the world’s...
U.S. Traffic Deaths Skyrocket After Coronavirus Lockdowns Expire January 14, 2021 By David Shepardson WASHINGTON — U.S. traffic deaths jumped dramatically after coronavirus lockdowns ended in 2020, rising 13.1% in the three months ending...
U.S. Traffic Deaths Fell After Coronavirus Lockdown, But Drivers Got Riskier October 2, 2020 By David Shepardson U.S. traffic deaths fell during the coronavirus lockdowns but drivers engaged in riskier behavior as the fatality rate spiked to...
Study Shows Monitoring Plus Coaching Can Cut Risky Driving in Half September 24, 2020 By Jim Sams Oil-field workers who bomb around in pickups across hundreds of miles of countryside every work week cut speeding and hard...
Car Crashes Deadlier as Drivers Speed During Lockdowns June 26, 2020 By Lena Masri Coronavirus lockdowns led to huge reductions in traffic and fewer car crashes this spring, but as drivers sped up on...
Viewpoint: Empty Roads Should Be Safer. They’re Not. June 3, 2020 By Scott Duke Kominers Almost three months into the coronavirus crisis finds U.S. highways with just a fraction of their pre-pandemic traffic. It would...
US Roadway Death Rate Up in March Despite Virus Restrictions May 21, 2020 DETROIT — The rate of fatal automobile crashes in the U.S. jumped dramatically in March, even though the number of...
As Coronavirus Empties Streets, Speeders Hit the Gas April 15, 2020 By Tina Bellon NEW YORK — Empty roads in the United States and Europe are tempting drivers to go out and shift into...
Teen Tesla Driver’s 100 MPH-Plus Speed Cited in Deadly Crash December 20, 2019 By Alan Levin A speeding teenage driver caused the fatal crash of a Tesla Inc. vehicle in Florida in 2018 and the subsequent...
Analysis Confirms Speeding is Best Predictor of Car Crashes August 22, 2019 Speeding is the riskiest kind of aggressive driving, according to a unique analysis of data from on-board devices in vehicles....