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Testing of four 2026 model-year vehicles found that automatic emergency braking prevented collisions in standardized intersection scenarios, but three vehicles failed to avoid crashes when another vehicle turned into their path.
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Performing an annual motor vehicle record check and assigning a point system for driving infractions has helped 3M reduce accidents by 14 percent.
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DULUTH, MN - A 62-year old Minnesota man plead guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk, according to the Duluth News Tribune.
Read More →EL SEGUNDO, CA --- Advances in telematics are making car theft a riskier business -- and thankfully, the technology figures to thwart even more thieves in the near future.
Read More →DEARBORN, MI --- Ford Motor Co., as the final phase of its research into the cause and effects of distracted driving, is using high-tech goggles that measure the amount of time drivers take their eyes off the road to help validate in-vehicle technologies such as GPS navigation systems.
Read More →VISALIA, CA --- OnStar's Stolen Vehicle Slowdown (SVS) service helped police safely recover a 2009 Chevrolet Tahoe that had been carjacked at gunpoint Oct. 18 in Visalia, Calif. This is the first time that SVS has been activated to help a subscriber in a carjacking situation, General Motors and OnStar said.
Read More →BOSTON --- Progressive Insurance executive Karen Mills resigned from the Massachusetts Auto Damage Appraisers Licensing Board last week, just two months after her swearing-in.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. --- In an effort to prevent vehicle crashes, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA), in partnership with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and other groups, has launched Operation Safe Driver.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. --- A U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday, Oct. 20, cast doubt on the legal authority of a police officer to pull over a suspected drunk driver based solely on a caller's tip to law enforcement, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Read More →ALBANY, NY - Gov. David Paterson recently proposed penalties including jail time and confiscation of trucks to come down on drivers who use GPS to take more hazardous routes and end up striking bridges.
Read More →ARLINGTON, VA - The Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS) recently sought out the impact of cell phone laws in changing patterns of driver cell phone use in New York, Connecticut, and the District of Columbia.
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