Sentences with phrase «reducing car crashes»

Orin Kerr, at the libertarian legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy, points to a new study claiming that laws prohibiting cell phone use while driving have not succeeded in reducing car crashes.

A 2017 study found that graduated license programs have been instrumental in reducing car crashes among 16 and 17 - year - olds.

Dingoes increase cattle yields, mountain lions reduce car crashes and vultures eat organic waste: like them or not, predators help humans.

Aside from sterilization, the city also plans to use other non-lethal methods of dealing with the animals including public education about living with deer to reduce car crashes and tick - borne illnesses, traffic safety measures like extra signage and to add deer - resistive plantings to the borough.

If every vehicle was equipped with the technology it could reduce car crashes by 55,000 a year.

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These «crumple zones,» inspired by and named after the parts of a car meant to crush on impact to reduce the force of a crash, allow it to absorb some of the energy of a collision.

Tesla also went on to cite stats from the government showing Autopilot reduced crash rates by 40 percent, and suffered far fewer fatalities per mile than other cars.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the electric car company is making major improvements to the Autopilot system used by its vehicles, which will dramatically reduce the number and severity of crashes in which they are involved.

He believes that a wider presence of self - driving technologies will reduce the risks associated with driving, as human error is responsible for more than 90 percent of all car crashes.

Pat, It's more like trying to reduce drunk driving fatalities by making sure the drunk's car isn't really a TANK that crashes through car after car after car before finally plowing into a crowded market and running over some more people.

But over half of car seats are misused in a way that could reduce their effectiveness and 1 in 3 children killed in car crashes were completely unrestrained at the time of the crash.

Restrictions on night driving may reduce teen car crashes by 19 percent.

With the new technology, $ 300 billion in car crash damages could be reduced and avoided.

The use of a foot prop on rear - facing car seats can help reduce those injuries by reducing the transfer of crash energy to the child.

The stitches reduce and slow the forward movement during a car crash!

The Radian is one of the few car seats that you can tether rear facing which will reduce seat rotation during a car crash.

The purpose of a foot prop is to reduce the downward rotation of a rear - facing car seat in a crash.

The ARB is located on the infant car seat base and minimizes the risk of injury by reducing rebound rotation by up to 30 percent in a crash.

Indeed, parents are viewed as one of the best ways to reduce teen car crashes.

By clearly defining your expectations before you hand over the car keys, you'll reduce the risk of frustrating conflicts, costly crashes, and other problems.

Crash reports evaluate the ability of the child seat to reduce the injury risk in conditions that simulates a car's interior environment and the forces encountered during a crash.

Called Next Generation (Next Gen), the car seats offer 360 Degree Protection with Head Safety Technology - designed to reduce the risk of head injury and provides protection from all sides in the event of a vehicle crash.

The patented 2 - point top tether with staged - release webbing anchors the top of the car seat to the vehicle and slows forward movement, reducing crash forces.

The studies have proved that children of ages 1 - 2 should be in a rear - facing position as long as possible because it will reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries in car crashes 5.3 times, which won't be the case with forward facing position.

Be sure to use the top tether: It will limit the motion of the car seat and your child's head in a crash and reduce the risk of injury.

THE BRONX — Concrete barriers and reduced speed limits are among the safety measures being added to a dangerous stretch of the Bronx River Parkway where seven family members died in a car crash Sunday.

The Pedestrian Safety and Enforcement Program is a statewide initiative to reduce fatal car crashes involving pedestrians.

One study conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety estimates that crash - avoidance technologies could reduce fatal car accidents by one - third, potentially saving many thousands of lives a year.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays our resourceful, sharp - minded hero, who, after a wicked car crash, wakes up trapped in a subterranean survival bunker with a lumbering, creepy captor (John Goodman) who claims the outside world has been reduced to a wartorn, uninhabitable wasteland.

When schools have delayed the start of the school day, communities have seen reduced tardiness, sleeping in class, and car crash rates, as well as improved attendance, graduation rates, and standardized test scores

The Plus software can apply braking when the car is travelling as fast as 124 mph if it detects an imminent accident; while that may not avoid a crash entirely, Mercedes hopes the autonomous system will at least reduce the severity of an accident.

Volvo believes autonomous cars will reduce traffic congestion and prevent car crashes; the automaker has set the ambitious goal of having nobody seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo by 2020.

Similar to Volvo's CitySafety system, CEB uses a set of lasers to detect pedestrians or vehicles in front of the car and can automatically activate the brakes to reduce the possibility of a crash.

Announced plans to update its 5 - Star Safety Ratings program and encourage automakers to produce cars with better crash protection and new crash avoidance technologies to save more lives and reduce passenger and pedestrian injuries.

All cars get six airbags, a speed limiter, tyre pressure monitors and stability control, while Active City Brake is now available as a # 250 option on Allure models and above, reducing the risk of crashes at speeds up to 20mph.

ESC is highly effective in helping the driver maintain control of the car, thereby avoiding or reducing the severity of crashes.

The aim of the tests was to examine if rust problems in crash beams and other parts of the structure effectively reduce a car's crashworthiness, and the group discovered deterioration in both cars» crash safety levels.

In a 2011 report by IIHS, the group found that side impact airbags reduced the chance of death in a side impact crash by 37 % in cars and 52 % in pickup trucks.

The Institute is exploring countermeasures for large truck underride crashes and in other research has found that the problem of crash incompatibility between cars and SUVs is being reduced.

Auto manufacturers are cooperating to reduce vehicle incompatibilities in both side and front collisions that lead to occupant injuries in struck cars (see Status Report special issue: vehicle incompatibility in crashes, April 28, 2005).

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates the installation of ESC reduces single - vehicle crashes of cars by 32 percent and single - vehicle crashes of SUVs by 57 percent.

A later federal report concluded that ABS reduces overall crash involvement risk by 6 percent for cars and 8 percent for pickups and SUVs but has no effect on fatal crash risk.

In Institute studies, ESC has been found to reduce fatal single - vehicle crash risk by 49 percent and fatal multiple - vehicle crash risk by 20 percent for cars and SUVs.

Mitsubishi doesn't always score highly in our annual Driver Power owner satisfaction survey, but the Eclipse Cross was awarded five stars for safety by independent crash - testing experts Euro NCAP, who took into account the car's autonomous emergency braking, lane - departure warning and other sophisticated systems that work together to reduce the risk of collision.

The Tesla's automated vehicle control system was not designed to, and did not, identify the truck crossing the car's path or recognize the impending crash; consequently, the Autopilot system did not reduce the car's velocity, the forward collision warning system did not provide an alert, and the automatic emergency braking did not activate.

It is introducing new tests in 2018 to assess lane assist systems that can control a car's steering to avoid a potential collision, systems that will help to reduce crashes at road junctions and improved pedestrian and cyclist - detecting AEB systems.

The study suggests that the technology reduced single - vehicle crashes by more than one - third in passenger cars, more than two - thirds in SUVs.

Equipping cars and SUVs with electronic - stability control can reduce the risk of involvement in these crashes by more than 50 percent.»

Using a lap / shoulder belt reduces the chances of dying in a crash by 58 percent for people seated in the center rear seat of cars and 75 percent for people buckled up in minivans, pickups and SUVs, a new National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) report indicates.

A federal report finds that electronic stability control, or ESC, reduces fatal crashes involving a single car by 36 percent.