Automobile deaths result in significant economic losses, estimated at around $340 billion, while the emotional consequences for survivors and families include anxiety, PTSD, and long-term psychological distress, profoundly affecting their quality of life....
The number of Thanksgiving air travelers was expected to decline by 47.5% from 2019, but nonetheless, 2.4 million people were forecast to take to the skies, according to a report earlier this month from the American Automobile Association. It said the number traveling by car was expected to f...
The idea is to rate automobile safety on a host of new technologies that can stop risky driving behavior before it even occurs. As a result, NCAP tests will become more stringent, and vehicles that don’t include these features are likely to receive a lower rating. As David Zipper, a vis...
Traditionally, NHTSA assigns safety ratings to new cars and trucks by putting a couple of crash test dummies inside the vehicle and ramming it into a wall at high speed. But this system really only assesses the risks posed to automobile occupants — and not the danger posed to vulnerable road...
In addition, the results show that the daily number of COVID-19 deaths (covdt) has a significant influence on demand for air and auto travel, indicating that a rise in deaths leads to a reduction in air traffic volume (−0.17) and an increase in automobile use (0.07). We also find...
After the late 1970s, one might say that the personal computer, for the well-to-do classes of the “advanced” capitalist sector, will stand as a symbol of this phase of accumulation as the automobile did for the earlier period. Yet the computer, like the automobile before it, was much...
with automobile sales being a good example. High-priced cars haveseen higher sales in the current fiscal, even higher than their pre-pandemic sales, while sales of lower-priced cars andtwo-wheelershaven�t picked up, so much so that many car manufacturers have cut down operations of lower...
Trump significantly ramped up his feud with the Ivy League school this week, with his administration reportedly moving to revoke the school’s tax-exempt status and force it to pay millions. Trump, however, said a final decision hasn’t been made. ...