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Vendor Choice no Accident for Europe's Top Vehicle Tester
White Paper Each year, Stuttgart-based DEKRA Automobil GmbH tests around 18 million cars, lorries and motorcycles for safety and legal compliance, compiles more than 800,000 damage and accident analysis reports and carries out... [03 Jul 2008]
PHH Customers and Staff Get Fleet Responses from Sybase Solutions
White Paper PHH aimed to reduce the expense, administration and vehicle downtime for fleet owners so it had no hesitation in building and running the necessary accident management system, and subsequent associated... [03 Jul 2008]
Backseat driver keeps armed forces in line
News The technology has been shown to reduce accidents by an average of 54 per cent and lowered accident costs by an average of 65 per cent. The in-vehicle sensor tracks and analyses driving styles and then... [04 Apr 2008]
Photos: Driving safety through tech
Photo This is one of the transmitters that can be placed on the side of the road at accident trouble spots. If, for example, ice is detected on the road by the device at the time of an incident, this can help in establishing... [21 Jan 2008]
Work drivers more likely to snooze behind the wheel
News Brake added that the Corporate Manslaughter Act, due to come into force on 6 April, could make employers more likely to face prosecution if a member of their staff is involved in a fatal accident. Motorists who drive as... [04 Jan 2008]
Photos: Robots race around 'Darpa city'
Photo If a robot was in an accident and not at fault, the team would have had roughly 30 minutes to fix the vehicle and get back in the race, according to Darpa rules. CMU had a backup robot waiting in the... [14 Nov 2007]
Radioactive: Today a jam, tomorrow the open road?
Comment For instance, if a vehicle encounters an accident, fog or ice, it can pass the information to other road users in the immediate vicinity of a danger spot. More cars may be able to squeeze their way onto... [21 Jun 2006]
QinetiQ gears up for £6.2m wireless pact
News A spokesperson for QinetiQ described a scenario in which, after a car is involved in an accident and the airbag is deployed, "the system might be able to communicate the fact that there's been an... [06 Jun 2006]
Inside London's Congestion Charging hub
News Since the scheme launched, according to figures from TfL, traffic has been reduced by 15 per cent and congestion by 30 per cent, while accident rates have dropped by five per cent. Black and white cameras are used to... [13 Oct 2005]
Drivers back road-charging black box plans
News Those in favour said the black boxes would help the emergency services to locate vehicles in an accident and a quarter backed ideas such as insurers discounting premiums based on data collected by the boxes. [15 Jun 2005]
O2 hailed as life-saver
News I have no memory of the journey or being at the Accident and Emergency department but I woke up in the Coronary Care department. Airwave, designed specifically for the emergency services, also provides a... [15 Nov 2004]
Leader: Companies care about lawsuits not staff
Leader Department of Transport figures put the increased risk of accident at 400 per cent. It has long been widely acknowledged that driving while talking into a handset puts a driver and those also in or in the vicinity of a... [04 Nov 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Crash, crash, crash
Comment I hadn't had a car accident for over 16 years and I certainly didn't see this one coming, so I began to contemplate, where are the next two coming from? The driver had unfortunately lost control avoiding another... [25 Sep 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: All-seeing technology
Comment Any act of vandalism or theft or an accident could be recorded for later analysis. And just suppose every vehicle on the road was to have forward, backwards and sidewards pointing cameras, plus internal... [04 Jun 2003]
Mobile phone users support driving ban
News Independent research has shown that motorists using mobiles are four times more likely to be involved in an accident than other drivers. Under the current law, motorists can only be prosecuted if they fail to keep proper... [01 Oct 2002]
