Photo: Denise McQuillen via Pixabay The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently released a preview of 2019 data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, which included estimates for the first half of 2020. A pair of companion reports,Special ...
Motor vehicle crashes cost American society $340 billion in 2019, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced today. The agency’s new report, “The Economic and Societal Impact of Motor Vehicle Crashes, 2019,” examines the costs of one year of crashes that killed an estimated ...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened an investigation into Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature after receiving reports of four crashes, one of which caused a pedestrian fatality. According to NHTSA, the FSD system's engineering controls failed t...
Annually, about 32% of all traffic fatalities are speed-related. The analysis presented in this report details the demographic characteristics and geographic attributes of the speeding driver to identify potential avenues to target countermeasures to reduce speeding-related fatalities.Data from the ...
Entities as diverse as General Motors, Tesla, Lyft, Navistar, BorgWarner, Denso, First Transit, and Nuro will soon begin reporting crashes of their vehicles equipped with advanced driver assistance systems. 播放(k) On June 29, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued anorderrequirin...
The Lifesavers Conference is the largest annual gathering of highway safety professionals in the United States. The awards recognize individuals and organizations for achievements in the field of traffic safety. The awardees aim to help achieve the zero-roadway fatality goal outlined in the Department...
TheNationalHighwayTrafficSafetyAdministration’sprimarymissionisto“savelives, preventinjuries,andreduceeconomiccostsduetoroadtrafficcrashes.”Oneofthemost importantwaysinwhichtheagencycarriesoutitssafetymandateistoissueFederal MotorVehicleSafetyStandards(FMVSS).Throughtheserules,NHTSAstrivesto ...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will take a deeper look into how Tesla vehicles equipped with so-called Autopilot driver assistance software navigate when interacting with first responder vehicles at the scene of a collision. NHTSA said this week that it is upgrading the ...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is moving ahead with its plans to revise safety rules that bar fully self-driving cars from the roads without equipment like steering wheels, pedals, and mirrors.
Traffic fatalities declined about 3% in the first quarter, according to preliminary data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.