Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

Hands free driving is a reckless, dangerous, and selfish idea — even when your car is partially automated. Image: Creative Commons

Study: Partial Automation Encourages Reckless Driving

By Kea Wilson | Nov 20, 2020 | No Comments

Automated vehicle technology was supposed to end car crashes forever — but a new study suggests that the more automated a car gets, the more reckless its driver may become.

It's cheaper to insure a monster like this than a Corolla.

How Auto Insurers Subsidize Car Carnage

By Eve Kessler | Oct 22, 2020 | No Comments

It costs less to insure an SUV, despite its role in the pedestrian death crisis. And drunk drivers barely pay more for insurance (why can they even get insurance again?).

A PDS senses three white-presenting pedestrians in its path. Source: Virginia Department of Transportation via Creative Commons.

Study: Driverless Cars Bad at Detecting Dark Skin

By Kea Wilson | Jun 17, 2020 | No Comments

Driverless cars are worse at detecting darker skin pigments, meaning that autonomous vehicles might not solve the already disproportionate pedestrian death toll faced by black communities, according to a new study.

Safety Officials: Tech Will Save Pedestrians from SUVs

By Angie Schmitt | May 16, 2019 | 16 Comments

We know SUVs are killing pedestrians. But none of the traffic safety agencies is willing to alert the public about it.