Sentences with phrase «lower crash rates»

While these vehicles have significantly lower crash rates than smaller vehicles, the accidents that do occur with these vehicles can be catastrophic.

Two other studies that attempted to determine if Google's vehicles had lower crash rates than conventional vehicles found mixed results.

Two separate studies found that lane - keeping systems and blind spot monitoring systems had lower crash rates than the same vehicles without the systems.

These appear to lower crash rates, too, but not to the same extent as the versions that do include it.

Their simple intuitive design and low crash rate are good for grandma and grandpa who can't handle tech.

Not exact matches

At the same time, the city has a high rate of income inequality, slow employment growth, high levels of car crashes and crime, and low levels of Medicare enrollment.

And then oil prices crashed, forcing Poloz to drop his already low benchmark interest rate another half point in 2015 to avoid another deep recession.

After the housing crash in 2008, people started looking at refinancing mortgages with low interest rates.

Since the last housing crash, the nation's homeownership rate dropped to a record low and has hovered near there for the past year.

The low interest rates have not only helped save people money on mortgage payments, they have also saved home prices from crashing.

If one uses real rates of inflation produced by Shadowstats (versus the fantasy land figures of low inflation quoted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics every month for years on end), one can prove that the US dollar has crashed.

And trucks have a crash rate 28 percent lower than that of any other vehicles.

Plenty of writers have claimed that the Fed fueled the sub-prime boom by holding interest rates too low for too long after the dot - com crash.

Going as far back as 75 years, I can not recall a single instance of the stock market and economy crashing during a low interest rate environment like we are in now.

With the 10 Year Treasury yield (why this is important) crashing through 2 % and hovering around 1.5 % for weeks now, it's an optimal time to exploit the lowest rates we've seen EVER (Rate Table).

If you had originally planned withdrawing 4 % a year, temporarily lowering this to a smaller withdrawal rate would help mitigate the damage done by a market crash (assuming you have to sell assets at depressed prices).

In the draft, the Panthers did a couple of things to help Cam Newton, who completed just 44 passes to his backs last year while crashing to a 52.9 percent accuracy rate, a stunning 7 points lower than 2015.

Gordon Brown said the current outlook for the housing market is far removed from the crash of the early 1990s, pointing to lower interest rates and repossession levels a «fraction» of what they were.

Low - volume sports cars like the GT - R aren't often crash - tested, so crashworthiness ratings aren't available.

The lowest rating Leon owners gave was for its safety features, but Euro NCAP crash - testing returned a solid five - star rating when it was put through its paces, with excellent impact protection afforded to adults and children alike.

In crash testing conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the Santa Fe earned a top «Good» rating in moderate - overlap frontal - offset, side - impact and roof - strength tests and a second - lowest «Marginal» rating in the small - overlap frontal - offset test.

At the time, the Shadow / Sundance was the lowest - priced car on the market with a standard driver's side airbag, which had been made standard on all US - market domestic Chrysler Corporation cars in 1990, giving them a remarkable crash test rating for a car its size at the time.

The study by IIHS» VP of research, Jessica Cicchino, shows that ``... lane departure warning lowers rates of single - vehicle, sideswipe and head - on crashes of all severities by 11 percent and lowers the rates of injury crashes of the same types by 21 percent.»

The facelifted model received the maximum «Good» rating in all crash scenarios, the top «Superior» rating for crash avoidance & mitigation, but got the lowest «Poor» mark for the headlights.

[70] ANCAP crash test results rate the fourth generation VE lower in the offset frontal impact test than the third generation VY / VZ Commodore.

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).

HLDI first reported on reductions in claim rates for Volvo's low - speed autobrake system, City Safety, in 2011 and began noting benefits for higher - speed systems in 2012 (see «Volvo's City Safety prevents low - speed crashes and cuts insurance costs,» July 19, 2011, and Status Report special issue: crash avoidance, July 3, 2012).

Although the overall side crash protection still would have been rated good, with low risk of injuries to both driver and rear passenger dummies, Nissan engineers were concerned about the interference with the deployment of the side curtain airbag.

You can check the crash test ratings for different cars at SaferCar.gov; the cars are rated with a five - star system where five stars is the highest rating and one star is the lowest.

The minicar has a standard low - speed front crash prevention system that earns an advanced rating.

This is considerably lower than the police - reported crash rate in Mountain View, (6.06 per million vehicle miles traveled), where Google cars operate, and comparable to the statewide rate in California (1.92 per million vehicle miles traveled).

The rate of fatal crashes per 10,000 registered vehicle years was 31 percent lower for motorcycles equipped with optional ABS than for those same motorcycles without ABS.

However, its overall death rate when it was last reported was a low eight per million miles traveled, which may say more about the average CC driver than its ability to withstand a crash.

It's also profoundly safe, with an overall death rate significantly lower than the average (the lowest in this class of cars, actually), a Top Safety Pick rating from the IIHS, and an overall five - star crash rating from NHTSA.

Still, airbags should stay in place in crashes, so engineers had to lower the restraints and kinematics score for the marginal - rated Jetta.

Unlike the Q3, the 2016 Audi Q5 features optional crash prevention technology like forward collision warning and low - speed autobrake, which helped it earn the highest rating possible of Top Safety Pick Plus.

Research shows that drivers of vehicles that earn good ratings in frontal offset crash tests have significantly lower risk of fatal injuries in real - world frontal crashes, compared with drivers of vehicles with poor ratings.

In the simpler analysis, the rate of all crashes was 18 percent lower for vehicles equipped with the feature, and the rate of injury crashes was 24 percent lower.

The ratings are based on research by HLDI indicating that forward collision warning and autobrake systems help drivers avoid front - to - rear crashes at both low speeds and moderate speeds.

The small car earns a superior rating for front crash prevention when equipped with optional Front Automatic Braking and Low - Speed Front Automatic Braking.

Controlling for other factors that can affect crash risk, blind spot detection lowers the rate of all lane - change crashes by 14 percent and the rate of lane - change crashes with injuries by 23 percent.

The 2016 Volkswagen Golf received a Top Safety Pick Plus rating from the IIHS because of its good test performance, on top of its crash prevention technologies such as forward collision warning and low - speed autobrake.

The GTI recieved an advanced rating in front crash prevention thanks to its low - speed autobrake and forward collision warning technology.

The 500e hasn't been crash tested, but the regular 500 scores 4/5 stars from the NHTSA and Good ratings from the IIHS in all tests except the small front overlap test where it received the lowest rating of Poor.

«We did a study... we found out the fatal crash rate was 28 percent lower for motorcycles with anti-lock brakes than for the non-ABS version,» said Anne McCartt, senior vice president of research at the Arlington, Va. - based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Along with the increased structural rigidity of the platform that aids with occupant protection, standard safety items included on every new 2017 Nissan GT - R consist of the Nissan Advanced Air Bag System (AABS) that features dual - stage supplemental front air bags with seat belt sensors and occupant classification sensors that can vary the rate of air bag inflation based upon seatbelt usage and crash severity; a pair of side - impact supplemental air bags that are integrated into the front seats so that they move with the driver / front passenger as the seating position is adjusted; roof - mounted curtain side - impact supplemental air bags; energy - absorbing steering column; and LATCH System (Lower Anchors and Tethers for CHildren) to properly secure LATCH - compatible child restraints without having to use the seatbelts.

It's hard to believe that the Model X SUV had never been crash tested before, but Tesla will have been rejoicing at the results as it was declared the safest SUV the NHTSA had ever tested thanks predominately to its low center of gravity, awarding it with the prestigious Top Safety Pick + rating.

While Hyundai is finishing the facelift for the Santa Fe SUV, the 2015 model has received a low rating in a crash...

Both hatchbacks lack airbags and received Global NCAP's lowest rating of zero stars (out of a possible five) for occupant protection in an offset frontal crash at 40 mph — a test that nearly all models in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia ace.

An updated HLDI - IIHS analysis shows that injury rates are 11 percent lower in rear crashes when vehicles are equipped with good head restraints compared with poor ones.