Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia USA, reprinted with permission. Nearly a decade after the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety first called for a federal mandate requiring street-legal motorcycles to be equipped with antilock braking systems (ABS), the data continue to pile up in favor of this lifesaving technology. Examining fatal crash rates for…
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John T. Hanna Awards – 2021
2021 John T. Hanna Award Recipients Sandbridge Traffic Safety Group - Martin H. Schlosser Award for Traffic Safety Activism Riverside CEALH: Jane D. McKinney Driver Rehabilitation Program - Transportation Safety Michael Goodove - Impaired Driving Prevention Christy King - Occupant Protection John Vaughter - The 2021 Lifetime Safety Achievement Award …
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Rained Out: Vehicle Safety Systems Struggle to “See” in Bad Weather
AAA finds automatic emergency braking and lane keeping assistance performance impeded by rain Ellen Edmonds Manager, AAA Public Relations eedmonds@national.aaa.com407-444-8011 New research from AAA finds that moderate to heavy rain affects a vehicle safety system’s ability to “see”, which may result in performance issues. During closed course testing, AAA simulated rainfall and found that…
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Largest Study of Its Kind Strengthens Argument for Motorcycle ABS
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Arlington, Virginia USA, reprinted with permission. Nearly a decade after the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety first called for a federal mandate requiring street-legal motorcycles to be equipped with antilock braking systems (ABS), the data continue to pile up in favor of this lifesaving technology. Examining fatal crash rates for…
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