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NSC and USDOT established the Road to Zero initiative with the goal to eliminate traffic fatalities within 30 years. As part of the initiative, USDOT committed $1 million a year for 3 years, and NSC is dedicating $1 million over 3 years, to fund Safe System Innovation Grants. Now we are pleased to announce the grant recipients ...
The US President revealed a budget proposal today that includes cuts to transportation programs, including elimination of transportation TIGER Grants ...
Three USDOT Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Sites — New York City, Wyoming and Tampa — are designing, building, and testing an extensive deployment of integrated wireless in-vehicle, mobile device, and roadside technologies. The USDOT recently released new fact sheets about all three sites. Here are a few of the details ...
Are drivers actually ready for the rapid onslaught of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) in the consumer vehicle market? A new Technology Demonstration Study (TDS) was conducted to determine whether drivers who are unfamiliar with ADAS technologies experience a change in their knowledge about and attitudes towards – including trust, usefulness, apprehension, and interest in purchasing – those technologies after they have learned about them ...
As autonomous vehicles (AVs) merge into our nation’s traffic, the most pressing safety challenge for states will be preparing human drivers. While these vehicles have the potential for tremendous safety benefits, AVs will be sharing the road with traditional driver-operated cars for many decades, perhaps forever ...
Our complacency is killing us. Americans believe there is nothing we can do to stop crashes from happening, but that isn't true. The US lags the rest of the developed world in addressing highway fatalities. We know what needs to be done; we just haven't done it ...
The Bipartisan Policy Center's Executive Council on Infrastructure announced the Coalition to Modernize American Infrastructure, which will set a foundation for the 2017 infrastructure debate ...
Part of the funding problem may be that ITS is still viewed by many decision makers as conceptual rather than real world. ITS is often categorized as research and development for the future, rather than as a very effective real world solution that delivers ROI today ...
The emergence of autonomous vehicles and many other electronic components render the current 12-volts (v) battery nearly unusable ...
FASTR (Future of Automotive Security Technology Research) released a manifesto, Toward Tomorrow’s "Organically Secure" Vehicle, declaring the organization's intentions. FASTR seeks to enable innovation in automotive security by marshaling industry-wide collaboration on the actionable applied and theoretical R&D needed now to drive systematic coordination of cybersecurity across the entire supply chain and ensure trust in the connected and autonomous vehicle of the future ...
