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Newsby StaffOctober 31, 2024

New Study Shows Automatic Emergency Braking Improves Crash Avoidance in 2024 Vehicles

AAA’s new study shows 2024 vehicles equipped with AEB significantly outperform older models in collision prevention, offering key insights for fleet safety and the future of braking technology.

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Newsby StaffNovember 16, 2022

IIHS Study Shows Pickups with AEB Have Far Fewer Rear-End Crashes

A new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety validates the safety benefits of automatic emergency braking in pickups — yet the technology was standard on only 5% of those vehicles in 2021.

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ArticlesCover Storyby Andy LundinJuly 28, 2020

Crashes in Parking Situations Remained a Fleet Safety Pain Point in 2019, Accident Survey Finds

Parking lot crashes have remained prevalent in the industry and are a perennial concern to fleets everywhere.

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Newsby StaffMay 14, 2020

Nauto Launches Predictive Collision Alert Tool

Nauto has added a predictive collision alert module to its driver behavior learning platform that is designed to detect imminent collisions.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 3, 2020

Top Five Fleet Accident Descriptions

Fleet drivers said they experience most vehicle accidents when their parked assets are hit by non-fleet vehicles, an incident that is often the product of distracted driving but may also be a fabricated event by the drivers.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 4, 2019

20% of Commercial Collisions Happen Under 5 mph

Some 20% of recorded collisions and 12% of recorded near-collisions in commercial fleets occur at speeds below 5 mph, according to new research from Lytx.

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ArticlesCover Storyby Andy LundinJuly 25, 2019

Rear-End and Parking Crashes Dominate the Fleet Industry

Accident rates remained mostly consistent in this year’s safety report. Rear-end and parking collisions were the most prevalent.

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Newsby Marianne MatthewsApril 19, 2019

How to Avoid a Rear-End Collision

Follow these nine steps for avoiding rear-end collisions, which have become a costly source of fleet repair costs.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 5, 2018

Apple's Self-Driving Vehicle Rear-Ended on Public Road

The collision occurred when the Apple test vehicle — moving at less than one mile per hour in autonomous mode — prepared to merge onto the Lawrence Expressway in Santa Clara, Calif.

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Newsby Paul ClintonJanuary 16, 2017

Element Partners with ADT to Reduce Rear-End Collisions

ADT Security partnered with Element Fleet Management and The CEI Group to reduce its collision rate by more than 30% after applying deeper business intelligence.

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