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Waze Is Fixing One Of Its Most Annoying Features To Make Streets Safer
Anyone who’s used Waze is familiar with the navigation app’s insistence on making turns on busy streets where there’s no signal to stop traffic. Waze actually has a name for these types of situations: “difficult intersections.” And a new feature will become the default setting on the app to help drivers avoid them — something…
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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.
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How Bad Street Design Kills Pedestrians
In the United States between 2003 and 2012, one pedestrian was hit by a car every eight minutes. 676,000 of those pedestrians lived. 47,025 of those pedestrians died. That’s 16 times the number of people who were killed by natural disasters like floods, earthquakes or tornadoes during the same period.