The 10 Most Dangerous Cars for Winter Driving: #1 Might Surprise You
Winter driving poses significant challenges, especially when some vehicles are less equipped to handle icy conditions than others. A recent study by MNH Injury Lawyers analyzed crash data, safety systems, and protection ratings to determine the most dangerous cars for winter driving. Surprisingly, both trucks and sedans dominate the list, with various shortcomings depending on their design.
Three of the top five most dangerous winter vehicles are pickups, each with notable drawbacks in crash statistics and safety metrics. Topping the list is the Chevrolet Silverado 1500. The Ford F-150 comes in second, with a slightly better track record, but it still faces significant winter hazards. The Ram 1500 ranks fifth overall.
Rolling Back Vehicle Standards is Bad for Drivers, the Auto Industry, and Anything that Breathes
Trump is targeting both federal and CA vehicle standards in his recent executive order – standards that not only reduce climate emissions but also slash air pollutants like nitrogen oxides and particulate matter. Undermining these rules will have major negative environmental, health, energy, and consumer impacts.
Vehicle standards likely to be targeted include EPA’s Multi-Pollutant Passenger Vehicle Emission Standards, NHTSAs Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, and Federal Heavy-Duty Truck Standards.
It’s hard to overstate the importance of standards in making progress in making real world impacts on reducing air pollution, cutting climate emissions, and reducing petroleum use. Sure, auto industry innovation is rarely standing still, but history has demonstrated that safety, efficiency and pollution innovations don’t deliver without standards in place
ZETI Connects Fleets to Capital in Shift Toward Clean Transportation via Innovative Lending Technology
(Photo: Jon Stafford, SVP at ZETI)
By Fleet Management Weekly Staff
ZETI is accelerating the transition to cleaner transportation by creating a transparent marketplace where lenders can better assess risk and offer fleets affordable rates of investment.
To better understand ZETI’s role as a conduit between fleets and lenders, we spoke with Jon Stafford, Senior Vice President of North American Sales at ZETI.
"At ZETI, our goal is to digitally transform automotive finance while accelerating the adoption of cleaner transportation. We aggregate data and leverage innovative technology to help fleets secure flexible and competitive financing while unlocking new or existing pools of capital."
Here’s Exactly Where AI Will Have a Lasting Impact on Work Truck Safety
By Kevin Anderson, Marketing Communications Specialist, Safe Fleet
Though initially met with wariness from workers regarding automation, safety is where AI has its highest calling of all. At this very moment, there are solutions that focus on improving the well-being of work truck operators from the insides of warehouses, to loading docks, and on the road.
Forklift drivers who previously lacked spatial awareness and blind spot visibility will now have sharp insight into the environment around them, as these systems detect pedestrian and vehicle movements in the area surrounding the vehicle.
The new AI backup camera systems will allow for more precision when maneuvering, fully expose the blind spots, and even go as far as identifying an object and its distance away from the vehicle with audio and visual alerts.
In terms of what AI can bring to the table, this is only the start. The future for work trucks can only get safer from this point on.
General Motors Sounds the Alarm on Trump’s Tariffs
The head of General Motors' Canada division is now sounding the alarm. If Trump follows through with his plan to push forward with tariffs, decades of progress could be unraveled from the delicate North American auto industry supply chain, causing vehicle prices to spike. And that means the consumer will ultimately be the one who suffers.
“It is a disruption that is in no one’s interest, especially in the U.S.,” warned GM Canada President Kristian Aquilina
It's not just the U.S. that could face higher vehicle prices, either. Canadian residents in particular will also be affected, as an estimated 50% of the vehicles sold in Canada in 2023 were imported from the U.S.
