Sentences with phrase «vulnerable road users»

The autonomous emergency braking system detects other vehicles but can not detect vulnerable road users such as pedestrians or cyclists.

She is passionate about the need to decrease road injury in vulnerable road users in the low and middle income countries of the region and is actively engaged in research with this aim.

Overall, the autonomous emergency braking system performed adequately in tests of its protection of vulnerable road users, with performance ranging from good to marginal in the individual test scenarios.

When pedestrian protection was assessed, not one vehicle scored more than two points, suggesting manufacturers were not designing cars with vulnerable road users in mind.

Not all offer electronic stability control as standard and most provide poor protection for vulnerable road users such as pedestrians in the event of a collision.»

Given that cyclists are one of the most vulnerable road users out there, and given that both hearing and balance are crucial to keeping you

Euro NCAP continues to set the agenda with new, more demanding challenges on safety technology to help protect vulnerable road users, including the introduction of the first cycling detection test for...

In a Toronto Star story on the same new laws, Brown tells the paper that the province would be well - served by the enacting of a «vulnerable road user law» that would boost penalties for drivers who seriously injure pedestrians or cyclists, regardless of which charges they ultimately face.

Catherine West, Labour MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, has tabled an Early Day Motion (used by MPs to publicise a particular cause and to gain support in the Commons) calling on the government to remove vulnerable road users from the reforms.

Given that cyclists are one of the most vulnerable road users out there, and given that both hearing and balance are crucial to keeping you alive, it makes sense that the Guardian's bike blog is asking whether you should be allowed to bike and phone at the same time.

Failure to bring vulnerable road user deaths in Britain down in line with other leading nations has been highlighted by the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS).

Failure to bring vulnerable road user deaths in Britain down in line with other leading nations has been highlighted

This change will make our roads safer and help protect not only blind and partially sighted people, but pedestrians, cyclists and other vulnerable road users.»

Then using real accident data they were able to recreate scenarios involving vulnerable road users, placing them in a number of defined locations adjacent to all 19 vehicles and plot exactly where blind spots existed.

For its 15th anniversary, Euro NCAP is organising an event that will focus on the availability of Autonomous Emergency Braking systems for car to car and car to vulnerable road user crashes.

They also ask that motor vehicles should be restricted to a survivable speed for vulnerable road users on roads that both pedestrians and vehicle users use.

The autonomous emergency braking system is able to detect vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and performed well in Euro NCAP's tests of this functionality.

We will continue to intensify our efforts in the future, so as to provide the best possible safety not only for drivers and passengers in a Mercedes - Benz, but also for more vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists.»

Discussing the research findings, project leader Steve Summerskill said: «We found that all standard vehicle configurations have blind spots which can hide vulnerable road users from the driver's direct vision.

Although government agreed to retain the use of CCTV outside schools, as well as at bus stops, in bus lanes and on red routes, they failed to carry out an equalities impact assessment for these proposals, placing vulnerable road users such as wheelchair users and parents with buggies at risk when crossing road junctions protected by yellow lines.

Euro NCAP's First Step to Assess Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) for Vulnerable Road Users ESV 2015 Evaluation of the Euro NCAP Whiplash Protocol Using Real - World Crash Data ESV 2015

Safety technologies that Mannikar suggested would bring improvements in the Indian scenario include helmets for two - wheelers, antilock braking systems for two - and four - wheelers, seatbelts and safety belt reminders, airbags and other occupant protection systems for all vehicles, electronic stability control (ESC) for heavy vehicles, radial and tubeless tyres for all vehicles, adaptive front lighting systems, and conspicuity for vulnerable road users among many others.

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Programming driver - assist technology to break law doesn't really bode all that well for vulnerable road user safety under full AV capability

Such strategies include cycling networks (segregated or non-segregated bike lanes; bike paths), and other means to permit safe access for all road users, including vulnerable road users such as cyclists and pedestrians.

For those who live in Michigan, you can help create that change by supporting efforts to enact a 5 - foot passing and vulnerable road user legislation that creates enhanced penalties for drivers who injure or kill cyclists.

Commenting on her new role, she said: «I have both worked and cycled with the RTALS team on many occasions, so greatly admire their approach and philosophy for championing vulnerable road users.

On a side note, it's morbidly interesting to consider how this could have unfolded if the van, which evidence suggested might have stopped to observe eagles, had been struck by a faster moving vulnerable road user, like a motorcyclist.

It should be less of an imposition to ask that a motorist check mirrors and blind spots before lurching to the shoulder from a stop in the middle of a highway than it is to extend options to vulnerable road users like in the Ormiston case.

The department shall include in the course curriculum instruction specifically addressing the rights of vulnerable road users as defined in s. 316.027 relative to vehicles on the roadway.

Cyclists are considered some of the most vulnerable road users in British Columbia, and are particularly prone to serious injuries and fatalities when involved in a collision.

The ordinance, called an act to «Protect Vulnerable Road Users,» is believed to be the first of its kind in the country, and would mandate trucks weighing over 10,000 pounds to be outfitted with side guards to help protect cyclists, keeping them from being swept underneath the wheels in what's known as a «right - hook» turn.

Car manufacturers will now have to fit an artificial noise to all quiet electric and hybrid vehicles, making British roads safer for blind and partially sighted people and other vulnerable road users.

«If you seriously want to reduce the number of collisions involving vulnerable road users and HGVs you have to improve the direct field of vision for drivers — and from our research this means lowering HGV cab designs or adopting low entry cab designs.»

For its 15th anniversary, Euro NCAP organized an event that focused on the availability of Autonomous Emergency Braking systems for car to car and car to vulnerable road user crashes.

The autonomous emergency braking system is also able to detect vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and performed well in Euro NCAP's tests of this functionality.

Motorcyclists continue to be among the most vulnerable road users in the UK, despite making up just one per cent of Britain's road traffic.

Other possible measures include legislating and enforcement of speed limits and drink driving statutes, and increasing the visibility of vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists.

The organisation started testing the effectiveness of manufacturers» AEB systems in preventing car - to - car collisions in 2013 and is planning to extend the assessment of AEB systems for vulnerable road users to cyclists in the coming years.

British Cycling has been working with the Vulnerable Road Users Group to seek to remove vulnerable road users from the reforms on the basis that they should be protected rather than penalised.

Despite opposition the government is pressing ahead with its reforms, which are unfair to vulnerable road users such as cyclists, pedestrians, motorcyclists and horse riders who rarely sustain the whiplash - type injuries being targeted.

Within these vulnerable road user groups Britain has a higher level of deaths per head — at 13 per million people — than Sweden and the Netherlands, despite no evidence of higher activity or exposure to risk.

HGVs with high cabs have the most blind spots and pose the greatest risk to vulnerable road users, research by Loughborough University has found.

Chris Hume, partnership manager at GoSafe, said: «Our continued focus on 20mph limits around schools is part of our commitment to safer communities, and to protect the most vulnerable road users; our children.

«We take our responsibility as the UK's biggest online car buying service very seriously and are dedicated to doing all we can to protect the most vulnerable road users.

An increase in the number of vulnerable road users being killed on Britain's roads shows a need for a renewed push for safety, according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).

Vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, still account for almost half of Europe's road fatalities and bicyclists» deaths are on the rise in many countries.

As well as assessing how well cars protect their occupants, Euro NCAP tests how well they protect those vulnerable road users — pedestrians and cyclists — with whom they might collide.

Pedestrian Protection which has been expanded to include cyclists and is now known as Vulnerable Road User (VRU) protection; and