Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration sponsored a study of on-board truck safety systems through the American Transportation Research Institute. Roll stability control, forward collision warning and lane departure warning systems all provided a full return on investment within 6-37 months depending on the technology selected.
Active, healthy adults over 50 metabolize alcohol at similar rates to younger adults, but their cognitive skills and reaction times are slower due to age-related declines. This coupled with older adults underestimating their degree of impairment is a serious safety risk and partly responsible for 13K alcohol-related deaths in the US as of 2007.
Active, healthy adults over 50 metabolize alcohol at similar rates to younger adults, but their cognitive skills and reaction times are slower due to age-related declines. This coupled with older adults underestimating their degree of impairment is a serious safety risk and partly responsible for 13K alcohol-related deaths in the US as of 2007.
AT&T plans to buy Ford trucks and convert them to compressed natural gas (CNG), push to open 40 new CNG stations, and replace over 7K cars with hybrids or other advance technology vehicles over the next decade. The planned $565M expenditure is hoped to be environmentally friendly and create or save 1K jobs over the next 5 years.