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The number of pedestrian deaths has risen substantially in the last decade. A proposed vehicle rule aims to reduce pedestrian head injury risk. Vehicles should better protect against pedestrian ...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the new rule aims to reduce fatalities for pedestrians who strike the hoods of vehicles, especially in pickup trucks and large SUVs that do ...
The Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act of 2010 was ... A proposed rule was published for comment by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in ...
The U.S. government's road safety agency is investigating Tesla's “Full Self-Driving” system after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.
Systematic motor-vehicle safety efforts began during the 1960s. In 1960, unintentional injuries caused 93,803 deaths; [5] 41% were associated with motor-vehicle crashes. In 1966, after Congress and the general public had become thoroughly horrified by five years of skyrocketing motor-vehicle-related fatality rates, the enactment of the Highway Safety Act created the National Highway Safety ...
From 2008 to 2017, pedestrian deaths resulting from vehicle collisions rose 35%, though areas with Vision Zero initiatives tended to buck this trend. [13] As of March 2004, the pedestrian traffic fatalities ratio was 11% of all traffic deaths in the US, according to the NHTSA's National Center for Statistics and Analysis. [11]
General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle division will pay a $1.5 million penalty after the unit failed to fully report a crash involving a pedestrian, the National Highway Traffic Safety ...
The terms "active" and "passive" are simple but important terms in the world of automotive safety. "Active safety" is used to refer to technology assisting in the prevention of a crash and "passive safety" to components of the vehicle (primarily airbags, seatbelts and the physical structure of the vehicle) that help to protect occupants during a crash.