Road rage can endanger drivers and their passengers, raise their blood pressure and their insurance costs — and, in more than a few cases, kill them. Such are the sobering findings of a detailed survey conducted by the Insurify group, who say that drivers who are cut off by another car are most likely to react angrily on the road.
These “angry” behaviors or reactions may include honking, cursing, blocking the offending driver from changing lanes, or in rare cases, confronting another driver or forcing him or her off the road. And these confrontations may be the least of it, Insurify reports: Road rage shooting deaths more than doubled between 2018 and 2022, accounting for 141 deaths and more than 413 injuries in 2022, the survey says.
The Hourglass Foundation empowers underserved students to learn automotive tech.
The 2024 Rivian R1T is the only pickup truck to earn a Top Safety Pick+, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) announced Tuesday. The IIHS conducts the most rigorous crash-testing assessments in the automotive industry, and a TSP+ designation is considered the highest safety recognition.
The electric pickup truck earned top "Good" ratings in all crash tests performed by the insurance-industry funded safety agency, including its updated moderate front overlap test. It's the only pickup proven by the IIHS to adequately protect rear occupants.
Almost half of Americans drive a pickup truck. Most Americans who don’t drive one think they’re getting too big. YouGov asked “a nationally representative sample of 1,116 adults (aged 18+ years) in the U.S.” to fill out an online survey in February.
They found that 47% of respondents owned a pickup and 41% of respondents agreed with the statement that trucks and SUVs “have become too large in recent years.” That group even includes many truck owners. Thirty-nine percent of truck drivers, the researchers say, “believe that the vehicle category has become too big.”
The Hourglass Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit and philanthropic arm of Flexco Fleet Services launches their first ever “Triple Impact Challenge,” a fundraising initiative that launches April 1st, 2024, and runs the entire month of April.
The goal is to raise $5,000 in 30 days to help support The Foundation’s four most recent student scholarship recipients—each pursuing educational endeavors in Automotive Technology, Diesel Mechanics, or Aviation Maintenance Technology.
To make this effort even more achievable, Flexco Fleet Services, an industry leader in vehicle remarketing services, and Hop Drive, a vehicle transportation drive services company, have both committed to matching dollar-for-dollar every contribution made.