Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Distracted Driving

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.

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.

The prevalence of autonomous vehicles will lead to more traffic congestion in the future, a new study finds

Robot Cars of the Future Can’t Fix Traffic, Pollution, Sprawl

By Aaron Short | Nov 1, 2019 | No Comments

A new study shows traffic congestion in cities will become significantly worse if autonomous vehicles proliferate.

Memphis has one of the highest pedestrian fatality rates in the country thanks to distracted drivers and a network of roads that aren't safe for pedestrians. Image: Eric Allix Rogers

Memphis is the Most Dangerous Place to Walk

By Aaron Short | Oct 29, 2019 | No Comments

But progress on pedestrian safety is moving slowly (unlike Bluff City drivers!).

A design firm proposed new guiding principles for planners and engineers: ethics, equity, and empathy. Image: Toole Design

Manifesto Promotes ‘Ethics, Equity, and Empathy’

By Aaron Short | Sep 20, 2019 | 2 Comments

A design firm publishes a new 'credo' for engineers, policymakers, and planners.

Activists want San Francisco to consider car free zones in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin where a spate of pedestrian injuries and deaths have occurred this year.

Car-Free Zones Eyed in SF, Elsewhere

By Aaron Short | Sep 18, 2019 | 1 Comment

A string of pedestrian injuries and deaths in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district has spurred city leaders to demand a ban on cars in some densely populated neighborhoods — the latest in a nascent and long-overdue move by activists nationwide to get reckless drivers off at least a tiny handful of city streets. San Francisco Supervisor […]

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