Tag: Traffic Accidents and Safety
Jackie Walorski, Indiana Congresswoman, Is Killed in Car Crash
WASHINGTON — Representative Jackie Walorski, Republican of Indiana, was killed in a car accident in her district on…
Uber Safety Report Says Sexual Assaults Down but Rate of Traffic Deaths Up
Uber said in a safety report on Thursday that sexual assaults in its ride-hailing vehicles were down significantly…
DUI Arrest of Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Illuminates the Speaker’s California Life
Speaker Nancy Pelosi had just urged Brown University graduates to stay resilient and summon their “better angels” on…
Self-Driving and Driver-Assist Technology Linked to Hundreds of Car Crashes
Nearly 400 crashes in the United States in 10 months involved cars using advanced driver-assistance technologies, the federal…
Auto Safety Agency Expands Tesla Investigation
The federal government’s top auto-safety agency is significantly expanding an investigation into Tesla and its Autopilot driver-assistance system…
How Safe Are Systems Like Tesla’s Autopilot? No One Knows.
Every three months, Tesla publishes a safety report that provides the number of miles between crashes when drivers…
Goodyear Recalls Tires That Federal Government Says Had High Failure Rate
Goodyear has voluntarily recalled more than 170,000 out-of-production tires that prompted lawsuits claiming that they had caused crashes…
For Truck Drivers Across the U.S., Major Change Is Approaching Fast
The Petro Travel Center on Interstate 10 in Ontario, Calif., is one of scores across the country. At…
Can A.I. All but End Car Crashes? The Potential Is There.
In Barcelona, Spain, a recent trial used computer vision technology on city buses to map places along the…
6 Oklahoma High School Students Killed in Crash
Six high school students were killed in a crash on Tuesday when the vehicle they were in collided…
13-Year-Old Boy Drove Truck That Hit Van in Texas, Killing 9, Officials Say
A 13-year-old boy was behind the wheel of a pickup truck that struck a van in Texas on…
Nine Dead, Including Coach and Six College Golfers, in Texas Wreck
The University of the Southwest’s golf teams were making the kind of drive familiar to athletes at plenty…