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Few American-Made Vehicles Topped the Safety List
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s recommendations for the safest 2018 cars is comprised of very few American made, while Korean, German and Japanese made the top of the 69 chosen vehicles.
Ford’s Lincoln Continental was the only car in the Top Safety Pick Plus category, and the only vehicle included in the Top Safety Pick class was the Chevy Volt. The Buick Envision made the grade in the midsize luxury SUV group, as did the Chrysler Pacifica among the minivans.
IIHS President Adrian Lund said his organization notified automakers early in 2017 that this year’s ratings would include new tests for improved headlights and passenger-side frontal overlap crash protection. “We have raised the bar and so the number is reduced.”
Read more of the original article at The Detroit News.
What You’ll Pay for a Top Safety Pick+ Vehicle
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has raised the bar for new vehicles to earn its highest “Top Safety Pick+” designation and most models have to be specially equipped, adding as mush as $11,000 to the base price.
In addition to scoring top “good” marks in full frontal, driver’s-side small overlap, side-impact, roof strength, and head-restraint performance tests, a vehicle has to offer a forward auto-braking system, along with meeting stricter headlamp performance ratings, and a new-for-2018 passenger’s-side version of its small overlap crash test that replicates hitting a tree or pole.
Read the original article at Forbes.
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San Francisco Limits Sidewalk Delivery Robots
San Francisco has passed strict regulations on the number of delivery robots operating permits to three per company and nine total at any given time for the entire city.
“Not every innovation is all that great for society,” said the San Francisco supervisor Norman Yee, who authored the legislation. “If we don’t value our society, if we don’t value getting the chance to go the store without being run over by a robot … what is happening?”
The robots could significantly cut down on delivery vehicles (and labor costs), but they also take up space on sidewalks, where bicycles, Segways, and sitting or lying humans are already banned. Since taking on the issue, Yee said that his office had become something of a repository for photographs taken by angry residents of the robots clogging the sidewalks amid baby strollers, bus stops, street vendors, and pedestrians.
Read the original article at The Guardian.
