Teen drivers between ages 16 and 19 are three times more
likely than drivers 20 + years old to be in a fatal vehicular crash
In fact, teenage drivers ages 16 to 19 are about three times more
likely than drivers ages 20 and older to be in fatal car crashes, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In a crash, motorcyclists are five times more
likely than drivers of a passenger vehicle to be injured.
In 1999, IIHS researchers analyzed more than 5,000 insurance claims and determined that drivers with head restraints with good geometric ratings were 24 percent less
likely than drivers with poor - rated head restraints to sustain neck injuries in rear - end crashes.
Not exact matches
Uber's willingness to ban racists will
likely be received well by many
drivers, more
than half of whom were non-white as of January 2015.
If your
driver has had a decent night's sleep in the past 24 hours, you're
likely to get home safer
than if you took the wheel yourself.
Although this means that a majority of these regular ride - hailing users are car owners /
drivers, they are significantly less
likely to own or drive a car
than either occasional ride - hailing users or Americans who do not use ride - hailing at all.
As complex as that will
likely be for the company, it still may be more economical
than paying
drivers.
Even a statement as simple as «people are less
likely to be involved in accidents while Autopilot is engaged» could be misleading if
drivers tend to rely on Autopilot more in ideal driving conditions, rather
than challenging ones, and the distinction isn't taken into account.
Investors» perceptions about the intentions of these central banks, rather
than economic fundamentals, are
likely to remain the central
driver of fixed income markets.
Companies that exceed lead and revenue goals are 2.3 X more
likely to research the
drivers and motivations of their buyers, 1.6 X more
likely to understand the fears and challenges of their buyers, and 2X more
likely to include the buying preferences of their personas
than companies who miss these goals.
«Investors» perceptions about the intentions of central banks, rather
than economic fundamentals, are
likely to remain the central
driver of fixed income markets.
6 4 395 Hump in landing area removed, so players more
likely to bust
driver between ponds
than lay up with iron
· Legally intoxicated male
drivers are 707 times more
likely to be involved in a road death
than a sober
driver.
The baby is 10 times more
likely to die
than the drunk
driver is to even get a ticket or have an accident.
A NASCAR
driver is less
likely to die in a race
than the baby is to die in childbirth.
A recently released study found that
drivers who are texting are 23 more times more
likely to crash
than the undistracted
driver.
According to the source, the city council members, who were hand - selected by the mayor's staff for being among those
likely to co-sponsor the bill, were told that the
drivers would also benefit from getting the green medallions earlier
than they would had they applied through normal channels.
New York
drivers are «less
likely to have an insurance claim involving a collision with a deer this year
than they were the previous year,» according to State Farm Insurance.
The actual number is
likely less
than that, since some of those
drivers used E-ZPass, which offers a small discount.
A recent study presenting different accident scenarios found that people were less
likely to blame an automated car, even when it was at fault,
than a human
driver at fault.
In dense traffic, cell phone users were about 20 percent slower to respond to sudden hazards
than other
drivers, and they were about twice as
likely to rear - end a braking car in front of them.
The studies also showed older
drivers — those most
likely to buy autos with infotainment systems — are much more distracted
than younger
drivers when giving voice commands.
Lorry and train
drivers are 15 times as
likely to crash at dawn
than at dusk, and many of the world's major disasters — such as the Three Mile Island nuclear incident and the grounding of the Exxon Valdez — have occurred in the early hours of the morning.
Further, the analysis revealed that a white
driver is about 60 % more
likely than a black
driver to hear something from the top 10 % most respectful utterances, whereas a black
driver is about 60 % more
likely to hear something from the bottom 10 %.
«We found when a road worker and machinery were visible,
drivers nominated lower speeds, suggesting that they were far more
likely to slow down
than if they saw no activity,» he said.
Phillips and his co-authors find that
drivers with BAC 0.01 percent — well below the U.S. legal limit of 0.08 — are 46 percent more
likely to be officially and solely blamed by accident investigators
than are the sober
drivers they collide with.
It is a relatively safe bet for driverless carmakers to say they will foot the bill for everything from fender benders to violent crashes because semiautonomy is showing that computer
drivers are
likely safer
than human ones.
For example,
drivers in the Northeast were nearly 30 percent more
likely to have made an angry gesture
than drivers in other parts of the country.
Risks of distracted driving were greatest for newly licensed teen
drivers, who were substantially more
likely than adults to be involved in a crash or near miss while texting or engaging in tasks secondary to driving, according to the researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Virginia Tech.
For example, male
drivers were more
than three times as
likely as female
drivers to have gotten out of a vehicle to confront another
driver or rammed another vehicle on purpose.
Drivers living in the Northeast were significantly more
likely to yell, honk or gesture angrily
than people living in other parts of the country.
While there are probably a few teachers out there who fit this rather stereotypical bill, these days, the path to becoming a meditation teacher is
likely much closer
than you might think and possibly even being tread by your co-worker, neighbor, favorite barista, or your taxi
driver.
So on balance, by analyzing the muscle - tendon length changes in the hamstring strain injury research specifically, it seems more
likely that energy absorbed is the key
driver of a muscle strain injury, rather
than the size of the strain.
Making individual schools or smaller networks of schools the
drivers of change (rather
than large school systems) has been one of the themes of the charter movement and a voucher program would
likely reinforce that philosophy.
This is when people think they're less
likely than others to have something bad happen to them, and it works across people's expectations — they think their children are going to be geniuses, they feel they are better at their jobs
than their colleagues, that they're better
drivers than everyone else, and of course, that they will never be in an accident.
Cost reduction for overall compliance is one of the
drivers for the hold out manufacturers and with more
than likely drive compliance as CAN BUS costs are reduced to the point where lack of adoption does not make financial sense anymore.
And it feels sportier
than rival Rolls - Royce, whose ambition, after all, is to waft the
driver — or, more
likely, the back - seat passenger — from Point A to Point B.
Just as consumers ought to consider that Escort GT is more
likely to appeal to young
drivers — or, perhaps, to «mature»
drivers seeking to reacquaint themselves with their youth —
than it is to the Lincoln Continental set.
The e-Golf also has far more tech and
driver assistance features
than the Focus Electric and
likely won't be much more expensive.
And in these value - conscious days, economy car buyers are
likely to be pleased with the new Prizm's base price of $ 9,995 - that's $ 130 less
than the car it replaces, even though the 1993 model is bigger, comes with a standard
driver's side air bag and a more powerful engine.
A 2008 Institute analysis of insurance claims found that, all other factors being the same,
drivers of vehicles with seat / head restraint combinations rated good in Institute evaluations were 15 percent less
likely to sustain neck injuries in rear - end crashes
than drivers of vehicles with poor head restraints (see «Neck injury risk is lower if seats and head restraints are rated good,» March 15, 2008).
The view from behind the wheel is one common to older SUVs; the windshield is narrower
than it should be, not quite hampering visibility but
likely to give shorter
drivers a bit of a claustrophobic feeling.
The new model, equipped with more
driver assistance and collision avoidance technologies, and boasting an architecture composed of more
than half high - strength steel, is
likely to dramatically improve the 2018 Accent's crash protection.
The reality is, though, that unless you're prepared to ghost along on the motorway with your Grand Cherokee's mirrors full of gesticulating 44 - tonne truck
drivers, you're
likely to see consumption that's a lot heavier
than those official figures suggest.
While the seats were comfortable — and nicely trimmed in leather and suede for the RT - X grade — they were lacking support, which became obvious as soon as the Vitara was punted into corners a little harder
than most
drivers are ever
likely to do.
A 2008 Institute analysis of insurance claims found that, all other factors being the same,
drivers of vehicles with seat / head restraint combinations rated good in Institute evaluations were 15 percent less
likely to sustain neck injuries in rear - end crashes
than drivers of vehicles with poor head restraints.
The analysis shows that
drivers are far less
likely to be in a crash in a Volvo with City Safety
than a car or SUV without the crash avoidance system.
Its key appeal is that it's by far the least expensive engine in the range, and low - mileage
drivers (below 12,000 a year or so) are
likely to find it no more expensive to run
than a diesel.
ARLINGTON, Va. —
Drivers of vehicles that perform well in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's side - impact crash test are much less likely to die in a real - world left - side crash than drivers of vehicles that do poorly, a new analysis
Drivers of vehicles that perform well in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's side - impact crash test are much less
likely to die in a real - world left - side crash
than drivers of vehicles that do poorly, a new analysis
drivers of vehicles that do poorly, a new analysis finds.