April, 2016
Please see inspirational work to make us all safer at http://annaleahmary.com/2016/04/underride-roundtable-to-highlight-underride-research-around-globe/
Lou
April, 2016
Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members: Listen to this program with an ear for the latest blame the driver arguments.https://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2016-04-28/distracted-driving-what-it-will-take-to-lower-fatalities
April, 2016
Thanks to Roger Lanctot for this link to an interesting article on the future of autonomous vehicles as seen by an investor:
“In 20 years, I think it may even be illegal for a human to drive a car on many public roads. It will be too dangerous. You won’t just be endangering yourself, and you’ll be endangering everyone around you.
There are 50K casualties a year in the US alone on the roads (almost double the number of deaths caused by firearms). In 2010, the World Health Organization estimated there were 1.25 million driving-related fatalities. These cars will drop that to close to zero. Just like you can’t go running around with an assault rifle.” See
April, 2016
The Washington Post reports:The three new federal board members, who will take office June 1, are Carol Carmody, former vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board; David Strickland, former administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; and Robert Lauby, chief safety officer of the Federal Railroad Administration.
They will replace Mortimer Downey, who recently completed a term as board chairman; Harriet Tregoning, a senior official at the Department of Housing and Urban Development: and Anthony R. Giancola, former executive director of the National Association of County Engineers.
Foxx praised the outgoing directors for their “excellent service,” but there was no mistaking his desire to force change on the board so Metro would deal more aggressively with safety.
Despite decades of warnings from the federal government and others, Metro has failed to instill a safety-first mind-set in its workforce and allowed its equipment to deteriorate so much that it sometimes endangers riders.
“Building a safety culture is not easy and requires relentless focus at every level,” Foxx wrote. “These three new Federal members will build on our promise to bring a laser-like focus on making the transit system of our nation’s capital as safe as possible.”
See https://www.wmata.com/about/board/biographies.cfm#main-content See https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/foxx-saying-no-more-excuses-for-metro-on-safety-replaces-3-board-members/2016/04/28/0089c108-0d53-11e6-bfa1-4efa856caf2a_story.html
April, 2016
Lou
April, 2016
Nader believes “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
In that belief Nader has organized a national Conference on Breaking Through Power to empower citizens to lead in efforts to build a Safer America. He describes the Conference athttps://blog.nader.org/2016/04/22/breaking-through-power-historic-civil-mobilization-now/
The program overview is at https://www.breakingthroughpower.org/
This comes at a time when America is suffering from nearly 4 million deaths from vehicle violence historically. Currently America is suffering vehicle violence of about 100 deaths + 400 serious injuries + losses valued at nearly $2 billion – every average day. And last year vehicle violence increased by about 10% in the U.S.A.
All this suffering and losses with consequences that will go on forever! And all this suffering when never before has humankind had more scientific and technological ability to end vehicle violence in a decade.
April 2016
Hold your breath. Here’s the latest well described status.http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-idUSKCN0XI24G
How much of the costs will be paid by taxpayers is still unknown.
Lou
