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2008 Traffic Deaths Hit Record Low
Here’s some good news from the auto world (a rare occurrence over the past few months), 2008 traffic fatalities are at record lows. The National Safety Council annual report states that there were 39,800 deaths last year related to motor vehicles in 2008. That’s an 8% drop in the number of fatalities over the previous […]
Read More »No Ceiling on Roof Safety
Yesterday, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) told car manufacturers that they’re going to have to make vehicle roofs thicker and stronger if they want to attain top safety ratings. It’s a smart decision and one that needed to be made. Too many injuries occur in accidents where cars flip over onto their roofs, […]
Read More »Crash Proof Cars that Talk to Each Other? Believe It!
Imagine a world where cars never collide; where accidents just don’t happen; and where cars talk to each other and to the road. Yesterday, Michigan officials announced
Read More »Volvo XC60 City Safety System Report
The big safety news in the new Volvo XC60 is City Safety – a unique safety feature that can help the driver avoid or reduce the damage of low-speed impacts that are common in city traffic and bumper-to-bumper traffic. If the car is about to strike the vehicle in front and the driver does not […]
Read More »Drunk Drivers Foiled Again!
It’s getting trickier for drunk drivers to do what they love to do, which is drive drunk. Why hasn’t anyone thought of this earlier (a time right before now)? Motorists convicted of driving drunk will have to install breath-monitoring gadgets in their cars under new laws taking effect in six states earlier this month. How […]
Read More »New Volvo XC60 City Safety tour comes to a town near you
Volvo is doing a big promotion across the country as it enters the luxury, performance-oriented, small SUV/crossover market with their new XC60. Two Parallel Tours will cross the country with more than 85 events, giving customers the opportunity to see the new XC60 before it goes on sale at dealerships and experience “City Safety” – […]
Read More »Ford MyKey System – Keeping teenage drivers safe when you can't be there
In 2010 Ford will unveil a vehicle key that parents can give to their teenage drivers, which changes the settings on various safety features within the car. It’s called MyKey and it’s creating quite a controversy with parents and their kids who are of driving age. Teenagers in cars can be a deadly combination. How […]
Read More »Driving Safety Foundation Class: a fun way to improve safe driving skills
Driver education and skill has a lot of room for improvement in this country. How many times in a day do we complain that driver’s licenses are as easy to get as pulling a prize out of a box of Cap’n Crunch Berries
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