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Let's Get Beyond the 94% Crash Myth

By Don Kostelec | Oct 14, 2020 | No Comments

You’ve heard the claim that 94 percent of crashes are due to human error. Traffic safety campaigns are grounded in it. Agencies are using it to advocate for autonomous vehicles. But simply put: It’s not true.

Bike Easy celebrates a tactical urbanism "small win" — a protected bike lane on Marconi Drive in New Orleans. Photo: Bike Easy

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There is Structural Racism in Transport: Report

By Aaron Short | Dec 18, 2019 | No Comments

Smart Growth America: include community members in planning, hire more diverse staff, and stop displacing residents to combat generations of structural racism

Congress is seeking to regulate self-driving cars after two hearings showed the lack of federal oversight in the nascent industry. Image: zombieite

Federal Government Doing Nothing On AVs

By Aaron Short | Nov 26, 2019 | No Comments

Right now, Big Auto is developing technologies that will affect every single person in this country — and the federal government is sitting on its hands.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont's $21 billion transportation plan primarily widens highways which will encourage more driving across the state.

Connecticut’s Transportation Plan Stymies Its Future

By Aaron Short | Nov 19, 2019 | No Comments

What is Gov. Ned Lamont doing building all these new roads to compete with transit?

The lack of widespread public concern about the epidemic of traffic crashes may stem from how they are reported in the media.

Op-Ed: Hey, Reporters, Stop Blaming Crashes on the Victims

By Tara Goddard, Kelcie Ralph, Calvin G. Thigpen and Evan Iacobucci | Nov 18, 2019 | No Comments

A new academic paper argues that a shift away from the victim-blaming of most news coverage of traffic crashes involving pedestrians could improve the lackluster policy debate around vehicle violence.

N. Mill Avenue in Tempe is one of America's dangerous speedway strips. Photo: Google

Report: Uber’s Software Flaws Led to Fatal Crash

By Aaron Short | Nov 7, 2019 | No Comments

The self-driving Uber car that killed an Arizona woman in March 2018 was not programmed to identify pedestrians outside of a crosswalk and lacked software that could have spared her life, a federal safety agency said.

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