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.
Parking lot crashes have remained prevalent in the industry and are a perennial concern to fleets everywhere.
Nauto has added a predictive collision alert module to its driver behavior learning platform that is designed to detect imminent collisions.
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.
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.
Accident rates remained mostly consistent in this year’s safety report. Rear-end and parking collisions were the most prevalent.
Follow these nine steps for avoiding rear-end collisions, which have become a costly source of fleet repair costs.
Rear-end collisions make up nearly 30% of accidents in the U.S., and every commercial driver should be reminded of the best practices for avoiding one.
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.
Both NHTSA and NTSB will investigate a Los Angeles-area collision involving a Tesla Model S that the driver said was operating in Autopilot mode.
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