pedestrian safety
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Honda’s Shoulder-Riding Robot Pal Aims To Make The Walk To School Safer
Honda is apparently working toward making Japan a place even more friendly to pedestrians than it is already. It’s not unusual for Japanese children as young as 7 to walk themselves to school, and that is causing a safety issue as they face vehicle traffic for the first time. To help make the trips safer,…
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How Likely You Are To Get Killed By A Car, Depending On Its Speed
It’s simple physics really: The faster a car is going when it hits you, the more likely you’re going to get killed. But there’s a correlation between the speed of the car and the likelihood you’ll be killed, especially when you take age into consideration. Just 8km/h can make a dramatic difference in whether you…
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California’s Using Its Amber Alert System To Find Hit-and-Run Drivers
In California, since 1996 Amber Alerts have been used to tell drivers to watch for cars associated with child abductions. But Amber Alerts are relatively rare (thankfully), so in the best possible use of the system the rest of the time, the state is using them to find cars involved in hit-and-run crashes.