The Space Race for Driverless Vehicles<\/h3>\nThe world\u2019s first automaker, Ford, has partnered with St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in Russia to understand how robots \u201ctalk\u201d in space. \u00a0They hope the multi-network telecommunications system, called \u201cmesh networks,\u201d can serve as a model for fool-proof communications between earthly machines\u2014this includes car-to-car and car-to-traffic-signal. It could be a lynchpin in the advancement of driverless technology. \u00a0Read Full Article<\/a>\n\nSource:<\/b> Wired.com\n

Good for Social Security, but\u2026.<\/h3>\nThe growing population of non-retired seniors is becoming a major source of road risk. Many older workers \u2013 who are considered \u201cvulnerable drivers\u201d due to their increased likelihood of compromised hearing, sight and cognitive function \u2013 operate vehicles as part of their jobs. On-the-job car accidents are the leading cause of occupational death and senior drivers are responsible for three times as many as their non-senior counterparts, according to the Center for Disease Control. Read Full Article<\/a>\n\nSource:<\/b> USA Today\n

Power to the Driver<\/h3>\nA new industry-academic partnership is working to solve two persistent driving issues: Fuel economy and cognitive distraction. The Powertrain Project pairs Engineers at Hundi-Kia\u2019s \u00a0America Technical Center<\/a> with grad students at the neighboring University of Michigan\u2019s College of Engineering and School of Kinesiology<\/a>. Current reserch-and-development: Dual Pre-Chamber (DPC) lean-burn combustion system that helps car engines optimize the flow of gasoline, ultimately requiring less of it; Electroencephalograph (EEG) sensors, a system that measures a driver\u2019s brainwaves and alerts them when they\u2019re slipping into \u201chighway hypnosis,\u201d a fancy term for daydreaming-while-driving. Read Full Article<\/a>\n\nSource:<\/b>\u00a0AfterMarketNews.com\n

A Holiday Warning to Drivers<\/h3>\nEvery three hours a sober person is killed by drunk driving. That\u2019s the statistic inspiring \u201cDrive Sober or get Pulled Over,\u201d a national effort that calls on more than 10,000 police departments to get drunk drivers off the road. The campaign\u2014which runs through Labor Day \u2013 gives special focus to the third of victims who are not the driver (in total, drunk driving kills 10,000 annually) and is a partnership between the U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Read Full Press Release<\/a>\n\nSource:<\/b> National Highway Traffic Safety Administration","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Space Race for Driverless Vehicles The world\u2019s first automaker, Ford, has partnered with St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in Russia to understand how robots \u201ctalk\u201d in space. \u00a0They hope the multi-network telecommunications system, called \u201cmesh networks,\u201d can serve as a model for fool-proof communications between earthly machines\u2014this includes car-to-car and car-to-traffic-signal. It could be a lynchpin in the advancement of … Continue reading “This Week In Traffic Safety: August 27, 2013”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[88,89,90,91],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traffic-safety","tag-driverless-vehicles","tag-social-security","tag-fuel-economy","tag-labor-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.trafficsafetystore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.trafficsafetystore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.trafficsafetystore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.trafficsafetystore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.trafficsafetystore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.trafficsafetystore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.trafficsafetystore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.trafficsafetystore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.trafficsafetystore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.trafficsafetystore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}