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0Report: IIHS survey says D.C. residents like speed and red-light cameras 1367005500
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) released a study this week that seems to go against what critics and the media have been reporting for years. According to the report, some people – more specifically, a large majority of the residents in Washington D.C. – actually ...
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Video: Brazilian crosswalk guardians pick up, carry car out of intersection 1346975880
To promote National Traffic Week in Brazil, a group has posted a video of how it is taking pedestrian safety into its own hands. The Hermann Blumenau Rotary Club is being called the "Brazilian Crosswalk Guardians," and this video shows exactly why. When what looks to be a Fiat Panda rolls into ...
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Official: GM developing Wi-Fi app to help pedestrians avoid being hit [w/video] 1343566860
Since even the threat of serious injury or death isn't enough to keep people engrossed in their phones from walking out into traffic, General Motors is developing a new pedestrian safety technology that will sense the phone itself. Using Wi-Fi Direct, a peer-to-peer wireless standard that's like ...
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Official: Volvo protecting pedestrians with airbags on outside of new V40 [w/video] 1331234940
Above all else, Volvo is known in car circles as being the foremost innovator in technologies intended to improve the safety of its vehicles. While we most often think of the safety of a car's internal occupants, it's important to remember than a two-ton weapon of mass destruction moving at ...
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Report: Land Rover Defender to soldier on until 2017 1319146140
Autocar reports that the Land Rover Defender will be around a good bit longer than we thought. The vehicle may stay on dealer lots until at least 2017 thanks in part to a new 2.2-liter diesel engine that can meet more stringent EU6 emissions standards. Originally, a successor to the long-running ...
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Official: NHTSA assessing pedestrian warning systems for hybrid and electric vehicles [w/poll] 1310079480
The addition of pedestrian warning systems on sometimes near-silent vehicles like the electric Nissan Leaf and hybrid Toyota Prius has been the subject of much debate, but with the U.S. House and Senate passing a measure that requires hybrids and plug-in vehicles to emit an audible sound to warn ...
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Report: Patent shows Porsche working on pop-up hood for next 911 1305581460
Europe is a dangerous place to be a pedestrian. With crowded cities characterized by gridlock and narrow streets, you have to be on your game every second to avoid getting bowled over by a raging, overzealous motorist. All too often, that spells tragedy. With one-sided car-on-human accidents on ...
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Senate unanimously rules in favor of noisy hybrids, electric cars 1292272380
Regardless of whether or not there's an actual need for pedestrian warning systems for hybrid and electric vehicles, the U.S. Senate has voted unanimously to approve a measure that would make the noise-adding setup standard on all vehicles that can operate – even if just momentarily – ...
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Video: Volvo suffers another auto-stop safety system failure in public fashion 1285614000
Volvo V60 Pedestrian Detection test failures – Click above to watch the videosVolvo's new Pedestrian Detection with Full Auto Brake is under scrutiny after a series of demonstrations for journalists in Australia went awry in rather spectacular fashion. During the presentation, an ... -
2011 Volvo S60 hands-on demonstration w/video 1279497660
2011 Volvo S60 T5 in action – click above for high-res image galleryAn impact with an automobile will crack a human's bones like lobster claws at a clambake; an outcome Volvo aims to fight with technology. Pedestrian Detection with Full Auto Brake, a system that uses radar and cameras to ...

