Sentences with phrase «safety gains»

The arbitration board had found that the expected safety gains to the employer were ranging from uncertain to minimal, while the impact on employee privacy was severe.

It would seem to be offsetting safety gains from other technologies, including not just new automatic collision avoidance systems, but even now taken - for - granted features like anti-lock brakes, which are equipped on a greater percentage of the U.S. fleet with each passing year.

«An open rulemaking process allows plant owners to complain that the gains [the NRC seeks] are burdensome and that there isn't much in the way of safety gains.

Tech and safety gains include a structural redesign that should enable the new Odyssey to pass the stricter US front offset crash test, more aluminum parts to reduce weight, and LED tail lamps.

While I have no doubt that politicians were deeply affected by the Ayen Chol tragedy, equally I have no doubt that they had any belief that their legislation was going to achieve any significant public safety gains.

Universal drug or alcohol testing will not be allowed when the expected safety gains are minimal and infringement on employees» privacy rights are severe.

Until then, fleets will reap the benefits of the safety gains from increasing levels of automation and the ability to «source drivers in a whole different way than they do now.»

Safety gains aren't globalSome regions lag U.S., Europe, Australia in protecting people in crashes

The London - based organization offers technical guidance and financial support to expanding new car assessment programs as part of the U.N.'s Decade of Action for Road Safety, a program to halve the death and injury toll on roads worldwide by 2020 (see «Safety gains aren't global,» June 27, 2013).

Two decades of speed limit increases have nearly canceled out the safety gains from frontal airbags.

As Congress prepares to raise fuel economy standards, it should be sure to preserve the safety gains of recent years.

My bottom line: seems to me that while we won't be using LI tech forever, its widespread adoption as part of a transition to vehicle electrification (and, per ReThinkX, a dramatic drop oil demand and in absolute vehicle numbers and hence resources used for that purpose, plus economic and safety gains) would be a highly positive «bridge measure» from «here» to «a truly sustainable future.»