Teen Driver Safety Week October 16-22, 2016
National Teen Driver Safety Week takes place from October 16-22, 2016.
AAA surveyed driving instructors to compile a list of the top mistakes teen drivers make when learning to drive:
- Poor Visual Scanning: Driving with tunnel vision and not properly scanning the road for risks or hazards.
- Speeding: Traveling over posted speed limits.
- Distraction: Interacting with a cell phone, talking with passengers or looking at other objects in the vehicle.
One Day, Cars Will Connect With Your Fridge and Your Heartbeat
When Bruce Wayne rolled up to his Bat Cave, a roadblock dropped automatically, the camouflaged garage door swung open, the lights flickered on and Alfred was already standing by.
It has been 50 years since that vision of Batman in his tricked-out Lincoln Futura appeared on TV. But now automakers, communications companies and technology companies want to turn every car into an interconnected Batmobile.
The car is going to become another node in the internet of things,” said Kamyar Moinzadeh, chief executive of Airbiquity, a Seattle software and engineering company specializing in vehicle tracking and telematics.
Will Car Users Share Their Personal Data?
Surveyed consumers in China, Germany, and the United States say yes, if they see value in return.
Advanced data analytics comes with a significant set of challenges, such as determining data quality, rendering data in functional form, and creating sophisticated algorithms to achieve practical insight.
But one of the first problems to solve is whether the data can be viewed at all.
This can be especially sensitive when companies seek personal information from private individuals. Will people share the data they have? And if so, what kind?
Adjusting to the Auto Industry’s Safety Whistleblower Program
By John E. Anderson, Sr.
The success of the auto industry is dependent in large part upon on safety, and the Federal Government has taken action to ensure that safety remains priority.
In December 2015, President Obama signed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, better known as the FAST Act, to begin long-term efforts to improve the state of ground transportation in the United States. All automotive companies—from the original equipment manufacturer, to the parts supplier, and the dealer will have to abide by a new set of regulations.
Under the FAST Act, a new automotive industry safety initiative took effect— the Motor Vehicle Safety Whistleblower Program (MVSWP). The MVSWP is designed to incentivize potential whistleblowers to report companies for attempting to cover up defects or failing to comply with reporting requirements for defects that are "likely to cause unreasonable risk of death or serious physical injury."
How People Actually Get on Board With New Technologies
How long will it be, do you think, until companies such as Amazon start delivering packages to you by drone?
If that prospect seems fantastical to you, you're not alone. According to a survey published Tuesday by the U.S. Postal Service's Office of Inspector General, 57 percent of people are either neutral about it or think it's a bad idea. Seventy-five percent of people think drone delivery is five years away at best; the rest think it will take even longer, if it happens at all.
There are some good reasons to think this timeline is accurate, which we will get into below. But the survey also reveals something else: Our skepticism of the technology may be a factor. That finding, which has been expressed in policy as a relatively slow approach to drone testing, helps shed important light on how technology adoption works more broadly. Here's how.
