Ford is introducing an affordable family sedan with all the safety features previously found only in luxury cars. As John Goreham reports for Torque News, the 2013 Ford Fusion will offer such technology as a driver alert system, lane assist, adaptive cruise control, and blind spot/cross traffic alert. He writes: No exact word yet on [...]
Nevada has become the first state to legalize the testing of self-driving cars on public roads, and the license goes to Google, the first company to file an application to test its autonomous system in the state. The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) website, which made the announcement on Monday, proudly says, “It is [...]
A new report says the auto insurance industry might lose a lot of revenue because of various auto safety technologies that could virtually eliminate car accidents within the next decade. As Stephanie K. Jones writes in the Insurance Journal article titled, “Future Vision: Will Driving Become Too Safe to Insure?,” the report, released on Tuesday, [...]
A first-of-its-kind Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) study finds that driving without using directional signals causes more car accidents than distracted driving. According to the study, driving without signals causes an estimated two million crashes per year, as compared with 950,000 traffic accidents that the U.S. Department of Transportation says are likely caused by various [...]
A recent study shows that vehicle owners are more interested than ever in having driving-assist features in their vehicles. According to a press release, the “2012 U.S. Automotive Emerging Technologies Study” by J.D. Power and Associates was published on Thursday and measures the interest of vehicle owners in emerging auto technologies and their intent to [...]
Anthony Levandowski, the project manager for Google’s self-driving car technology, told an audience at the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) conference Wednesday that Google seeks partners in the automaking business to bring the car to market sooner than the next decade. David Shepardson, of The Detroit News Washington Bureau, writes: “Search engine giant Google Inc. [...]
In the Netherlands, Domino’s Pizza’s electric delivery vehicles have a unique technology to prevent any accidents that the scooters’ lack of motor noise could cause for the visually impaired, pedestrians, bike riders, and people on the phone or wearing headphones. The solution Domino’s chose is getting a lot of media coverage and — as you [...]
To encourage teens to take distracted driving seriously, the Department of Transportation’s (DOT’s) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is holding a contest. NHTSA invites high school students to design a creative icon that can be shared on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other social networking sites. The icon will get the conversation going by helping [...]
Denver, Colorado-based Avanquest Mobile Technologies has launched a new application to help prevent distracted driving. Named “Mobile Safe Driving” (MSD), it is the newest module in the myMobile Companion suite of software for protecting people, devices, and content, according to the company press release. Mobile Safe Driving is available on the Android platform, and versions [...]
As Nestor E. Arellano writes for ITBusiness.ca: The idea of using a vehicle-interlock system that disables an automobile when sensors detect an inebriated driver has been around for some years now. One of the major hurdles though is that alcohol sensors can be fooled. For instance, one person can take the sobriety test and another [...]
