Enlarge / Anecdotally, I have never seen as much lawless driving as I have in the past year. (credit: Getty Images) The United States registered its greatest-ever six-month rise in traffic deaths for the first half of 2021. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has just published its early estimate for the months of January-June […]
Enlarge / Velodyne lidar sensors will create a real-time 3D map of this dangerous intersection in Austin to help the city make its roads safer. (credit: Velodyne ) American roads have never been especially safe compared to the streets in other countries . But the pandemic made things worse, with shocking rises in crashes and […]
Enlarge / Push button, but watch out for SUVs. Particularly at night. American drivers were an even more deadly threat to pedestrians in 2020, according to data analyzed by the Governors Highway Safety Association and published on Tuesday. Early data from state highway safety offices shows that 2,957 pedestrians were killed by drivers in the […]