February 2012 Edition
Driver Safety News
Infotainment in Cars Could Get a Boost from Backup-Camera Mandate
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A federal mandate to require backup cameras in all vehicles, expected Feb. 29, will be a bonanza for suppliers of collision-avoidance equipment. But the mandate also could provide an unintended boost to the infotainment industry. If automakers install display screens for backup cameras in entry-level vehicles, they could add no-frills applications for navigation, audio and hands-free phone calls… Read More »
Feds Investigate Problems with Side Air Bags
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Federal safety regulators are investigating a problem with side air bags that may fail to inflate in a crash. The problem already has caused recalls of more than 2,700 Toyota, Honda, Subaru and Nissan vehicles, but that number could grow if the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration determines that more automakers used similar defective parts. The recalled vehicles could have an ineffective mixture of the gas that inflates the side curtain air bags in a crash. That mix could mean air bags on one or both sides of the cars won’t inflate, increasing the risk of injury, the agency said in documents posted on its website. So far no one has been hurt… Read More »
Consumer Reports Examines Smarter Cars That Could Prevent or Minimize Up to 80 Percent of Crashes
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An ambitious new safety system that is being developed by government, universities and automakers is featured in Consumer Reports’ Annual Auto Issue. Instead of protecting against the aftermath of a vehicle crash, the system is designed to prevent vehicle crashes from occurring in the first place. And the magazine—a staunch advocate of stronger safety features for drivers for eight decades, from seat belts to air bags to electronic stability control—is impressed by this technology… Read More »
Consumer Reports supports vehicle-to-vehicle communication
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Consumer Reports magazine announced its support Tuesday for vehicle-to-vehicle technology that will allow automobiles to communicate with each other electronically, potentially saving thousands of lives. Magazine staffers were impressed by the technology shown during demonstration rides, Consumer Reports said… Read More »
School Buses Safer for Children than Riding in Parents’ Cars
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When it comes to safety, transportation statistics show it doesn’t get much better than a school bus. Tragedies such as Thursday’s bus-dump truck crash that killed an 11-year-old Burlington County girl and critically injured her two sisters and a boy are extremely rare, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistics. Each year, about 23.5 million children travel a collective 4.3 billion miles in some 450,000 school buses — and just five or six children die, according to the administration… Read More »
Safety an Essential Component of School Buses
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When it comes to safety, transportation statistics show it doesn’t get much better than a school bus. Tragedies like Thursday’s bus-dump truck crash that killed an 11-year-old Burlington County girl and critically injured her two sisters and a boy are extremely rare, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistics. Each year, about 23.5 million children travel a collective 4.3 billion miles in some 450,000 school buses — and just five or six children die, according to the administration… Read More »
OHS Launches First Seat Belt Enforcement …
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Delaware Office of Highway Safety and law enforcement officials have some simple advice to keep everyone safe both day and night every time they get in a car: buckle up. The first wave of seat belt enforcement for 2012 comes on the heels of a single vehicle night time fatal crash in New Castle County in which all three occupants were not wearing their seat belts. Two occupant’s sustained minor injuries; however the driver was killed.
Seat belt use is often 10 percent lower at night than during the day even though a person’s chances of being killed in a crash at night triples. In fact, more than a third of Delaware’s fatal crashes (35 percent) involving an unrestrained driver or passenger in 2010 occurred during the night time hours… Read More »
Gadgets in Cars too Distracting
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Even when you are right you get it wrong. DOT has issued ‘proposed’ ‘guidelines’ for comment (meaning consumers have 60 days to sound off). If the guidelines are enacted they will be exactly what their name implies: voluntary guidelines – not mandatory laws. (source: NHTSA website) The part you got right is that there are indeed too many distractions for today’s driver. Study after study has shown that humans cannot effectively multitask. When they do more than one task at a time all the tasks they are engaged in suffer in quality… Read More »
Press Room
DRIVING DYNAMICS Receives the APEX 2011 Grand Award
July 01, 2011 | Posted in: Press Room
Newark, Delaware – July 1, 2011. Now in its 23rd year, the Awards for Publication Excellence has announced that DRIVING DYNAMICS is the recipient of its 2011 GRAND AWARD for the Website Category. This awards program was founded to recognize communication professionals. Originally to honor exceptional work by editors of magazines, journals, etc., it now … Read More »
DRIVING DYNAMICS Enhances Driver Safety Training Curriculum – Adds New “Driver Responsibility” Module
January 11, 2011 | Posted in: Press Room
Newark, Delaware – Jan. 10, 2011 – in response to the continuing and increasing safety challenges fleets are experiencing as a result of inappropriate and dangerous driver activities, DRIVING DYNAMICS has just completed a major instructional enhancement for the classroom portion of its Behind-The-Wheel safety training courses. Effective immediately, the “DRIVER RESPONSIBILITY” instructional module is … Read More »
DRIVING DYNAMICS Publishes New, Fleet Safety Library
November 01, 2010 | Posted in: Press Room
Newark, Delaware – Nov. 1, 2010 – recognizing the need for fleet professionals to have access to a comprehensive collection of current, relevant online resources containing extensive reference materials on a broad range of fleet-related safety topics, DRIVING DYNAMICS is pleased to announce the publication of its new FLEET SAFETY LIBRARY and REFERENCE CENTER. “When … Read More »
