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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Imagine a situation in which a team of firefighters responding to a vehicle fire cannot extinguish the flames. Gallon after gallon of water does not douse them. Pile after pile of foam fails to finish them off. The car keeps burning, and the smoke keeps coming. Sounds like a scene from an action-adventure movie, right? Wrong. The events above actually unfolded on a Hollywood, Calif., street 2½ years ago. Fortunately, no deaths or inj...

Velodyne Lidar Commends NHTSA Plan to Update NCAP Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (Nasdaq: VLDR, VLDRW) today commended the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) plan to update to its New Car Assessment Program (NCAP). The NHTSA proposal would add four advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) capabilities to the NCAP, keeping pace with evolving safety technologies and providing much-needed information to consumers. NCAP is the U.S. Government’s pre...

The growing list of automakers committing themselves to battery-electric vehicles is excellent news for tho...

The Trump administration’s top roadway safety agency offered a final kiss-off to America by blaming drivers for killing each other so much last year — with zero acknowledgement of the administration’s own failures to implement life-saving policies that would have actually slowed them down or gotten them onto safer modes. The National Highway Safety Administration’s (likely final) press release on Thursday alluded to a stunning 4.6-percent spike in car crash fatalities between the the f...

Model Y Achieves 5-Star Overall Safety Rating from NHTSA The Tesla Team January 13, 2021 Since the launch of Model S in 2012, we have engineered every Tesla... | January 14, 2021

Velodyne Lidar, Inc.: Velodyne Lidar Commends NHTSA Plan to Update NCAP Velodyne Encourages Government and Industry Collaboration to Advance Vehicle Safety Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (Nasdaq: VLDR, VLDRW) today commended the U.S. Department of Transportations National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) plan to update to its New Car Assessment Program (NCAP). The NHTSA proposal would add four advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) capabilities to the NCAP, keeping pace with evolving s...

3 Min Read WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) urged automakers on Wednesday to improve electric vehicle emergency response guides that lack clear information and hamper efforts to extinguish lithium-ion battery fires. FILE PHOTO: A worker exits a Tesla Model 3 electric vehicle at Teslas primary vehicle factory after CEO Elon Musk announced he was defying local officials coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions by reopening the plant in Fremont, California,...

Miros/Marii MyMap motorcycle safety rating for Malaysia? ABS yet to be made compulsory here 7 January 2021 12:18 pm / 6 comments National road safety institute Miros (Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Marii (Malaysia Automotive Robotics and IoT Institute) to to raise vehicle safety standards. Among projects listed in the MoU is a plan to implement MyMap, a motorcycle safety star rating, similar to the ASEAN New Car Assessment Program ...

comments This story was produced by FairWarning, a nonprofit news organization based in Southern California that focuses on public health, consumer, labor and environmental issues. You can sign up for their newsletter here. Former President Lyndon Johnson was probably not the first, nor certainly the last, to note that more Americans have died on the nations roads than in all of its wars combined. He called it "the highway disease" in a speech in 1966, when he signed legislation that aimed ...

How to keep the bike boom from fizzling out Andrew J. Hawkins © Illustration by Grayson Blackmon This year, millions of people turned to bicycles as a safe and socially distanced way to get out of their homes, shake off that cabin fever, and get some fresh air, and suddenly — thanks to COVID — bikes were in. But unless concerted efforts are made to ensure people can continue to cycle safely and in great numbers, all those bikes may soon be gathering dust. Things looked g...