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Pedestrians who are not white ended up in the emergency room for traffic-related injuries at higher rates than white people, according to a new federal report published Thursday.
DETROIT — In the not-too-distant future, automatic emergency braking will have to come standard on all new passenger vehicles in the United States, a requirement that the government says will save hundreds of lives and prevent thousands of injuries every year.
Ford promises more hybrids but is delaying several key EVs. Are EV rejectors behind the times? And will EV sales hold up with the phaseout of incentives in Canada’s EV hotbed? This and more, here at Green Car Reports.
In a recent Fox News interview, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said EV skeptics risk being left behind by technological progress.
In 2022, cars killed 7,508 pedestrians, the equivalent of 18 fully-loaded Boeing 747s crashing with zero survivors. That means a pedestrian died roughly every 70 minutes, with no breaks in the tide of fatalities for weekends or holidays. This flood of death is recent: American roads were demonstrably safer to walk on just a decade ago, with thousands fewer pedestrian deaths.
A major commuter bridge in Baltimore collapsed after being struck by a container ship, causing vehicles to plunge into the water and halting shipping traffic at one of the most important ports on the US East Coast.
Car pile-ups are often the result of drivers following one another too closely in low-visibility conditions. Apple seems to be tempting one by being too tolerant of customers using its devices while in the drivers’ seat, and lacking the foresight to anticipate where this could lead.
In the near future, Apple hopes everyone will be walking around in its $3,500 Vision Pro headset – you know, just like the post-apocalyptic films from our childhood predicted. But every new technology comes with a learning curve, and some clout chasers are quickly learning that driving while wearing an Apple Vision Pro headset is extremely dangerous.