Distracted Driving Project

Tag: SemiAutonomous

‘If you own a car with partial automation, you do not own a self-driving car. Don’t pretend that you do’ — deadly distraction and overconfidence in car’s tech: Investigation

NTSB: Driver in fatal Tesla crash was playing video game
— The Detroit News, February 25, 2020

Focus of improvements in annual report card on US states’ road safety policies: Occupant safety and children; young drivers and licensing; and preventing impaired and distracted drivers

Report Card for the States Rates Those with Best and Worst Laws to Cut Traffic Deaths
— FairWarning, January 29, 2020

Despite NTSB’s safety concerns, Fed’s position stays in backseat, sticks with ‘private sector leadership’ as plan for regulating US driverless tech-development

New US plan keeps autonomous vehicle standards voluntary
— Associated Press, January 8, 2020

Pedestrian fatalities and the frustratingly complex turnabout of trends undoing road safety-gains across the globe; amidst promise of tech-fix: Essay

Collision course: why are cars killing more and more pedestrians?
— The Guardian, October 3, 2019

Researchers call foul on study that used public roads in Utah as laboratory to assess driver alertness and the use of SemiAutonomous technology in vehicles: Investigation

Asleep at the wheel: How a secret study on Utah’s roads could be putting drivers at risk
— Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with the Deseret News, July 11, 2019

Report gives recipe for zero fatalities on U.S. roads by 2050: Research

The Road to Zero: A Vision for Achieving Zero Roadway Deaths by 2050
— RAND Review, July-August 2019