Sentences with phrase «vehicles protect people»

Frontal offset crash tests conducted by IIHS since 1995 have prompted huge improvements in how vehicles protect people in frontal crashes.
NHTSA plans to add a new crash test to measure how well vehicles protect people in an angled frontal crash.
ARLINGTON, Va. — Frontal offset crash tests conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety since 1995 have prompted huge improvements in how vehicles protect people in frontal crashes.
A new Institute crash test evaluates how well vehicles protect people in frontal crashes involving 25 percent of a vehicle's front end.
Just as manufacturers made major improvements in how their vehicles protect people in frontal crashes, now they're making similar improvements for side and rear impact protection.

Not exact matches

Shifting to cleaner vehicles would also protect people, particularly children and the elderly, from toxic tailpipe pollution.
But it also proves why we desperately need federal regulation to protect people and autonomous vehicle innovation.
DuPont vehicle safety solutions are helping protect people across the vehicle value chain, from improved worker safety to better airbags and tougher automotive glass.
Touch - a-Truck is an educational community event that provides children with a hands - on opportunity to meet the people who build, protect, and serve Durham and Orange Counties and to see and touch vehicles from law enforcement, fire departments, public works, emergency medical services, construction machinery, farm equipment, and more.
The British Lung Foundation has campaigned on this serious child health issue since 2010, and during that time we have seen a wide range of people and organisations with diverse interests all voice their support for legislation to protect children from passive smoke in motor vehicles.
To protect people from these weapons, the U.S. military increasingly relies on robotic bomb detection and disposal units (in addition to the scores of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) overhead with reconnaissance and strike capabilities), creating life - and - death combat relationships between man and machine that will only deepen and proliferate over time.
Technology disruption is changing the way we work... protecting our assets, buildings, vehicles and most importantly our people, and education facilities must be at the forefront of this change.
The IIHS annually recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side, rollover and rear crashes based on good rating in a series of tests conducted by the Institute.
This contrasts with a serious frontal crash, in which the whole length of a vehicle's front end crushes to help protect the people riding in the occupant compartment,» Lund points out.
The authors of both studies calculated fatality risk in cars without side airbags, with head - protecting side airbags, and with airbags that protect people's torsos but not their heads (almost all vehicles with head - protecting airbags provide torso protection too).
When vehicles do roll, side curtain airbags help protect the people inside, and belt use is essential.
The Institute's Top Safety Pick award recognizes passenger vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side, rollover and rear crashes based on ratings in Institute evaluations.
Top Safety Pick recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side, and rear crashes based on good ratings in Institute tests.
The third test measures how well vehicle seats and head restraints protect people against neck injury in low - speed rear crashes.
«In order to win, automakers have beefed up the side structures of vehicles and added side airbags to do a better job of protecting people in serious side crashes,» Lund says.
«Before head - protecting airbags were available there was virtually nothing to prevent people's heads from being struck by intruding vehicles or rigid objects like trees and poles in serious side impact crashes.
When vehicles roll, side curtain airbags help protect people.
Top Safety Pick recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side, rollover and rear crashes based on good ratings in Institute tests.
The tests assess how well vehicles would protect people in rollover crashes.
According to the IIHS, the award «recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side, rear, and now for 2010 rollover crashes.»
The award recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side and rear crashes based on ratings in the Institute's tests.
When vehicles do roll, side curtain airbags help protect the people inside.
This award recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side and rear crashes based on ratings in IIHS tests.
Before the availability of head - protecting airbags, there was virtually nothing to prevent people's heads from being struck by intruding vehicles or rigid objects like trees or poles in serious side impacts.
Top Safety Pick recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side, rear, and now rollover crashes based on good ratings in Institute tests.
This award recognizes vehicles that do the best job of protecting people in front, side, and rear crashes based on ratings in Institute tests.
The seats and head restraints in many vehicles don't protect people's necks, but new designs show promise
When vehicles do roll, side curtain airbags help protect people.
Toyota Safety Sense ™ (TSS) is designed to help protect drivers, passengers, people in other vehicles on the road and pedestrians (TSS - P and Automatic High Beams) from harm.
It will protect against accidental minor drips, from an overhead pipe for example, and scratches or small dents caused by people next to the vehicle.
Personal umbrella policies are generally available for people to protect wealth above their liability coverage limits, but they're also a way for non-car-owners to be covered for vehicle liability.
A. No person shall transport or carry on any public street any dog in any unenclosed portion of a motor vehicle unless the dog is protected by a cage, pen or crosstie which will prevent the dog from falling from, being thrown from, or jumping from the motor vehicle.
(a) In order to protect the health and safety of an animal, any animal control officer, animal cruelty investigator appointed under G.S. 19A - 45, law enforcement officer, firefighter, or rescue squad worker, who has probable cause to believe that an animal is confined in amotor vehicle under conditions that are likely to cause suffering, injury, or death to the animal due to heat, cold, lack of adequate ventilation, or under other endangering conditions, may enter the motor vehicle by any reasonable means under the circumstances after making a reasonable effort to locate the owner or other person responsible for the animal.
You're 226 times more likely in your lifetime to be killed while walking down the street than to be killed by a dog, and 650 times more likely to die in a vehicle accident, but we haven't tried to outlaw walking or cars to protect people — yet.
Diesel Express VR is a first - person shooter in which you play as a Legionnaire of The Regiment, and your goal it to make sure the trains arrive successfully to their destination by protecting them from bandits who follow the train in their Diesel Punk vehicles.
62 percent of people who live near protected lane projects would be more likely to ride a bicycle if motor vehicles and bicycles were physically separated by a barrier.»»
As urbanization progresses, vehicle ownership increases and overall coal consumption continues to rise, «the government must implement strict air pollution control measures» to protect people's health and the environment, the newspaper cited the ministry as saying.
The contingency fee method of payment is in place to protect you, the plaintiff, at all times and this is why so many people with vehicle accident claims to file across Kansas and Missouri choose the personal injury attorneys at Ketchmark and McCreight, P.C. to work with.
Probably not — or not yet — but what has come a little closer with the Bill is a clear statement from the government about how people injured by automated vehicles (AVs) will be protected once the technology is approved for use on UK roads.
In the end it was the battle of «broader legislative goals»: allowing an innocent victim of a motor vehicle accident to seek damages against an insured person versus protecting innocent victims by promoting compulsory insurance.
Rucker wrote that as the purpose of the public intoxication statute is to protect the public from the annoyance caused by intoxicated people, «it is difficult to perceive how this purpose is advanced by declaring that the inside of a closed vehicle traveling along a highway is a public place.»
The need for insurance protects off - road vehicle owners and drivers in the event a person is injured because of their negligent acts or omissions.
If you relied on a seat belt, car seat, airbag, anti-lock breaks or other vehicle safety feature only to have it fail to protect you in an accident, one of our product liability lawyers can help you recover damages from the people or organizations that are at - fault.
In 2007, inspired by civil rights attorneys Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and Avon Williams, Jr., who used the law and courts as a vehicle to make change and protect all people against injustice, Attorney Zulu Ali opened the Law Offices of Zulu Ali with a focus on representing persons accused of crimes and seeking criminal justice, immigrants, victims of discrimination, and persons seeking civil justice.
Vehicle collisions can take a devastating financial, emotional, and physical toll on victims and their families, so if you or a loved one were injured in an accident that was caused by another person's negligence, it is important to contact an experienced Gainesville car accident attorney who can protect your interests.
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