Staying Safe on Your Smartphone
The launch of Apple’s iPhone 7 has been greeted with much enthusiasm.
The new phone comes with all of the latest bells and whistles, including the iPhone 7 Plus’ dual-lens camera. However, when getting a new phone many people give little thought about what they need to do to protect their privacy and security.
Whether you are getting a new smartphone or continuing to use an older model, everyone should be taking precautions to protect their privacy and security.
Here are 10 ways to protect your privacy and security on your smartphone:
Some Cities are Taking Another Look at LED Lighting After AMA Warning
If people are sleepless in Seattle, it may not be only because they have broken hearts.
The American Medical Association issued a warning in June that high-intensity LED streetlights — such as those in Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, Houston and elsewhere — emit unseen blue light that can disturb sleep rhythms and possibly increase the risk of serious health conditions, including cancer and cardiovascular disease.
The AMA also cautioned that those light-emitting-diode lights can impair nighttime driving vision.
Advancing Driver Safety: Benefits of Simulation Safety Training
Discovery Learning and Practicing the Un-Practicable Benefits of Instructor-Led Driving Simulation Safety Training
By Mike Griffin, Simulation Training Manager, Driving Dynamics
As a simulation training designer and instructor, I have had the privilege of watching many students in simulator driver safety training navigate the scenarios I’ve developed—ones designed to emulate real-world challenges occurring every day on the road.
Properly designed simulator-based safety courses place drivers in a variety of realistic, relatable, hazardous traffic situations. The Discovery Learning process takes hold as trainees are challenged to make real-time decisions and proficiently execute corrective actions. They become keenly aware of the consequences of their decisions and subsequent actions.
Any missteps reveal painful outcomes and have significant impact—personalizing results and motivating students to seek effective, safe resolutions.
Uber Making Rides Safer with Selfie Security
Uber is upping its game when it comes to the safety of its drivers and riders with a new system that requires drivers to confirm their identity before each shift by taking a selfie.
Called Real-Time ID Check the selfie taken is matched to a photo on file to ensure the driver providing rides is actually driver on the account.
While the incidence of driver identities being stolen is pretty low, the results in the rare instance it does happen could be disastrous, Uber officials noted.
Fleet Logistics Goes Live in Latin America With Syngenta
Fleet Logistics, Europe’s largest independent fleet management provider, has gone live in Latin and Central America with global agri-business Syngenta, managing a fleet of around 1,600 vehicles in eight countries across the region.
Fleet Logistics is doing this in two ways. Firstly, the fleet management provider, which has more than 150,000 vehicles under management world-wide, is managing a fleet of 800 Syngenta cars in South America’s largest country, Brazil.
