The City of Tampa spends millions of dollars each year maintaining and replacing its fleet of more than 2,500 vehicles.
But the I-Team has learned hundreds of cars and trucks were hardly driven, and we went to City Hall to find out why.
The fleet keeps thousands of city employees moving, from police and fire units responding to emergencies, to hundreds of vehicles used for things like trash collection, water service and park maintenance.
But a recent city audit determined 27 percent of Tampa's motor vehicles weren't moving much at all....driven less than 4,000 miles in a year.
Apple’s desire to build an autonomous car is no secret, but until recently it’s been hard to unearth many details about its research.
Now that’s changed, and what we’ve learned suggests that Apple is firmly on its back foot.
In the middle of April, the California Department of Motor Vehicles granted Apple a license to begin testing autonomous vehicles on the state’s highways. It was pretty late to the show—29 other companies have already started testing driverless cars there. But knowing Apple, it could have developed a killer product behind closed doors and then wowed the world with a big reveal.
Research shows that a 5% cut in average speed can result in a 30% reduction in the number of fatal road traffic crashes*. Small changes can have big results!
That is why NETS is now offering its hallmark Drive Safely Work Week™ (DSWW) road safety awareness campaign more frequently, beginning with a new campaign focused on speed. The emphasis is on short, direct, actionable messages, highlighting specific behaviors employees can change that will reduce their risk of a vehicle crash.
Download the free Drive Safely Work Week™ Speed campaign from NETS' website, and share this important message with your employees.
Are companies seeing any value to their investments in “big data”?
I’ve been surveying executives of Fortune 1000 companies about their data investments since 2012, and for the first time a near majority – 48.4% — report that their firms are achieving measurable results from their big data investments, with 80.7% of executives characterizing their big data investments as “successful.”
Survey respondents included Presidents, Chief Information Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Data Officers representing 50 industry giants, including American Express, Capital One, Disney, Ford Motors, General Electric, JP Morgan, MetLife, Nielsen, Turner Broadcasting, United Parcel Service, and USAA.
Incomplete data is hurting efforts to save lives.
The National Safety Council examined police reports from 50 states and Washington, D.C., to determine what data states are tracking with regard to motor vehicle crashes.
NSC found that no state fully captures the data required by government and traffic safety organizations to understand the real causes of crashes and effectively address the problems.