Sentences with phrase «better crash data»

Earlier this month, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Administrator David Strickland announced an enhanced 5 - Star Safety Ratings System that will utilize new tests and better crash data to hold cars to higher standards.

Not exact matches

The NTSB's recommendations included that the Department of Transportation and NHTSA should develop and issue mandatory performance standards for these systems and ensure better collection of crash data.

There is no data whatsoever that suggests that children in infant seats fare better in a crash than in an appropriate convertible.

«Based this new analysis of a decade's worth of data on children involved in crashes, policymakers, pediatricians and health educators should continue to recommend as best practice the use of belt - positioning booster seats once a child outgrows a harnessed based child restraint until he / she is at least 8 years of age,» says Dennis Durbin, MD, MSCE, co-scientific director of The Center for Injury Research and Prevention and study co-author.

An analysis of US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data of 870 children involved in crashes from 1998 to 2003 found that through 23 months of age, better protection from all crash types was provided with rear - facing seats.

Only when we know more about the crash, including details on the actions of the pedestrian as well as data logs from the car, can we make judgments, he says.

There are significant opportunities to improve public safety and lower costs through elimination of unnecessary differences in US and EU regulatory requirements, harmonization of crash data to better understand safety problems and more accurately measure the effects of potential actions to address those problems, and improved cooperation in research and rulemaking addressing emerging safety issues and technologies.

Since the first step towards reducing crashes is to understand them, FMCSA collects and maintains Federal databases for motor carrier and CMV driver safety data as well as a national inventory of motor carriers and shippers subject to Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR) and Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR).

There is crash test data from both the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration and from the Insurance Institute for Highw View a good collection of photos in the online database of Autobytel.com.

An analysis of 14 years worth of crash data involving Institute - rated vehicles shows that a driver of a vehicle rated good in the moderate overlap test is 46 percent less likely to die in a frontal crash, compared with a driver of a vehicle rated poor.

There still is good reason for automakers to stay involved: When an automaker builds in a data cellphone for telematics and automated crash notification, it uses an antenna that works farther in the boondocks that the best smartphone.

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The IIHS, which compiles its own crash test data and rates each car on a scale from GOOD to POOR, puts together its Top Safety Picks by picking the cars that scored highest for protecting occupants from frontal, side and rear impacts, as well offering electronic stability control as either standard or optional equipment.

Honda has been developing simulated crash tests that provide detailed analysis of crash data — and maybe the best part is that they can be run over and over again, as many times as necessary, in as many minor variations as is necessary, to perfect a car's safety systems and design.

IIHS agrees that crash tests should use the most biofidelic dummies available but notes that NHTSA hasn't supplied any comparative data to show that THOR, the modified Hybrid III 5th percentile female and the WorldSID 50th percentile male it proposes to use would provide more benefits and drive better vehicle designs than the dummies currently used.

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IIHS supports NHTSA's research on automotive electronic control systems and encourages the collection of diagnostic and failure data from restraint and crash avoidance / mitigation systems as well as vehicle electronic systems

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Prior to the well - publicized burst of the housing bubble and the resulting real estate crash that began in earnest in 2007, historical housing price data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) seemed to support the theory of endlessly rising prices.

Corbett says reliability is expected to be average or better, but there is little data on owner complaints and crash test results.

Reviewing truck crash data can help drivers, government agencies, personal injury attorneys and others identify risk factors and accident patterns to better determine the influencing factors that lead to injuries and fatalities on America's roadways.

And one of the best ways to tell if a car is safe is how it scores on crash tests conducted by organizations like the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and its affiliate organization, the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI).

The good news continues for Arkansas drivers when crash data are regarded as well.

Sadly, GA's crash data do not bode well for motorists in the state — or their insurance rates.

A Driving Safety Course will help you understand risk management, and as you can see from this data, a vast majority of fatal motor vehicle crashes occurred during good driving conditions, normal weather, daylight hours, driving in a straight line on a two lane road.

Quality data includes details about application freezes and crashes, as well as how much CPU time and memory are used for a specific app.

Meanwhile, there are references related to Bisto devices sending «diagnostics, usage data, and crash reports» to Google, as well as a notification alerting users to the headphones running in the background.

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