"Two years prior, the NHTSA had flagged something strange – something suspicious. In a separate report, it documented 16 cases in which Tesla vehicles crashed into stationary emergency vehicles. In each, autopilot disengaged “less than one second before impact” – far too little time for the driver to react."
https://www.europesays.com/2056446/ Whangārei house badly damaged after speeding car flies over property, crashes #after #airborne #badly #before #being #CAR #crashes #crashing #damaged #flies #flying #from #house #hurt #luck #NewZealand #over #property #residents #roof #seriously #sheer #speeding #stopped #that #through #went #whangrei #when
"Converting an existing constrained #BikeLane to a #ProtectedBikeLane can be expected to reduce motor vehicle-bike #crashes by over 50%. A decade-long look at protected bike lanes in a dozen U.S. cities found that all street users–people in #cars, people #walking, people #biking–experience safety benefits from protected bike lanes.” — from National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)
Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Third Edition https://nacto.org/latest/urban-bikeway-design-guide-protected-bike-lanes/
Road Death: The proliferation of larger vehicles ( SUVs or LTVs ) threatens to undermine all the road safety
“Around the world, we have seen a huge increase in the sale of ever-larger cars...Previous research has found that this trend is substantially undermining progress towards net zero goals."
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/supersize-suv-cars-fatal-injury-cyclists-pedestrians-research-b1224908.html
#cars #SUV #LTV #consumer #CarBloat #CarSpreading #RoadDeath #crashes #pedestrians #cyclists #children #ZeroRoadDeaths #violence #MobilityDesign
#KRITIS Sektor #Transport und #Verkehr
Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk
"Federal #Aviation Administration’s equipment for tracking #airplanes...Mr. Duffy said the young staff of Mr. Musk’s team was trying to lay off air traffic controllers. What am I supposed to do? Mr. Duffy said. I have multiple #plane #crashes to deal with now, and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers?
The exchange ended with..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-power.html
Are eight serious commercial #airplane safety incidents in first few weeks of #Drumpf admin, when there were no deadly incidents for over a decade prior, possibly linked to en masse firings of #FAA workers ?
As #plane #crashes increase, perhaps this is the caustic canary in a #MAGA mineshaft that should make us all take notice?
Are #Americans past the #FuckAroundFindOut phase of #autocracy yet?
Does anyone else using #FediLabs have issues?
My app keeps crashing. When I open the app. When I want to open a conversation. When I want to reply...
It also has issues with showing the profile names properly, at least for me...
I use an older phone, a Samsung S22 Ultra, but that should still be able to run the app, I recon. I clear cache every now and then, and that seems to help some.
I love the Fedilabs app, it's the one I prefer. But the crashes take some of the joy out of it. So I was wondering if more peopl have issues with it.
I tried to contact @apps here a whole ago but never saw a reply. I keep sending error logs the app provides me with. But the last app update was in March, so I wonder if the app is still being worked on? 
Please let me know if you have issues too, so hopefully the app mods will be able to find the reason of the crashes and, hopefully, be able to release an update with fixes...
New #research in JTLU by Jonathan Stiles and @mobileharv: "The built environment and the determination of fault in urban #pedestrian #crashes : Toward a systems-oriented crash investigation."
Road deaths
"Australian road deaths rising to levels not seen in nearly a decade."
"Last year, 1,266 Australians died from road accidents involving at least one car and a driver, passenger, pedestrian or cyclist. The economic cost of Australian road trauma exceeds $27 billion each year. That's 1.8 per cent per cent of Australia's GDP."
"Vision Zero: no loss of life or serious injury on roads is acceptable.">>
https://theconversation.com/can-we-cut-road-deaths-to-zero-by-2050-current-trends-say-no-whats-going-wrong-220289
Car dependency in Australia is unquestioned. The 'road toll' is a sacrifice to private mobility in sprawling sub-urbia. The present 'mobility design' gives people no options to travel on (fossil fuel free) public transport, walk or cycle without fear of being maimed or squashed by a SUV.
For anyone who updated to Android 14 QPR2 and have or still are experiencing crashes within Nova Launcher, we should have fixes put out today that will fix this.
Please stay tuned here as we'll post when those updates are posted live for everyone to install!
#DevelopingNews
An #Osprey, a U.S. #militaryaircraft with #eight on board #crashes into the #sea near #Japan per #NBC News
The spokesperson said the #plane belonged to the #UnitedStatesmilitary but couldn't say where it was #based. There were no immediate details available on the status of the #aircraft or those 8 lives #onboard following the crash.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-military-plane-crashes-sea-japan-osprey-yakushima-rcna127129
My latest in Fast Company:
Last week the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that speed-limiting technology be required on all new cars.
It’s an excellent idea. USDOT should do it.
How #Finland Put #Traffic #Crashes on Ice
The Nordic nation’s rate of vehicle fatalities is a fraction of the toll in the #US, despite a harsh climate and ice-covered streets. Here’s how the Finns do traffic safety.
by David Zipper
"The 1960s were a boom time for #Helsinki, Finland’s capital and largest city. Rising postwar incomes enabled a growing number of residents to purchase a car; the number of vehicles registered in the city tripled in just seven years. #Gridlock inevitably followed.
"To manage traffic and plot its future, the city of Helsinki commissioned a transportation master plan, co-authored by the US company Wilbur Smith & Associates and the Finnish firm Pentti Polvinen ky. In 1968, the consultants delivered their eye-watering proposal: nearly 200 miles of new highways in the Helsinki region, with much of downtown leveled to create space for high-speed motorways. The city’s existent streetcar system would be scrapped.
"The Finnish response to that vision was an emphatic ei (“no”). According to the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, the rejected 1968 plan 'has become a kind of dystopia, an extreme example of what car-driven planning can lead to.'
"Instead of committing its future to the automobile, as so many US cities did in that era, Helsinki kept its streetcars and embarked on a massive transit expansion. The city constructed the world’s northernmost subway, which opened in 1982. As of 2016, roughly a quarter of urban trips in Finland occur on foot, over 9% by transit, and 7.5% by bike. (In the Helsinki metropolitan area, which has a population about 1.3 million, those numbers are even higher.) One in seven Finns live in rural areas, roughly equivalent to the US share.
"The Finnish transportation system is as impressive for its safety as it is for its multimodality. Only 219 people died on Finnish roads in 2021, or four per 100,000 residents — just one-third the US rate. And Finland’s roadways are growing steadily safer. Fatalities plunged 50% between 2001 and 2019, when Helsinki made international news for going an entire year without a single pedestrian or cyclist fatality. (Last year there were two, down from 22 in 1990.) Like its neighbors #Norway and #Sweden, birthplace of the #VisionZero traffic safety movement, Finland’s roads today are safer than they have been in decades — unlike so many of the US cities that have tried to adopt Vision Zero principles.
"As I’ve written previously in CityLab, the US is an outlier in global #RoadSafety: Americans are now at least twice as likely to die in a vehicle crash as residents of Canada, France and Japan (among many other countries).
"But the safety record of Finland, a country associated with empty, rural roads and cold, dark weather, is particularly impressive. Here are a few reasons why so few people die in crashes in this Nordic nation.
"Set Stricter Limits
"Soon after dumping Helsinki’s car-centric 1968 plan, Finnish authorities embarked on a decades-long campaign to slow motor vehicles. 'In urban environments, there has been a steady decrease in maximum road speed,' said Heikki Liimatainen, a professor of transport and logistics at Tampere University. 'In the 1970s, it was normally 50 kilometers per hour in cities; then in 2000, it went down to 40 km/h. Now, more than half of our urban streets have a 30 km/h limit.'
"In Helsinki, city officials leverage street design to reinforce lower speed limits. 'We deliberately have narrow lanes, so the driver doesn’t feel comfortable,' said Reetta Putkonen, the director of Helsinki’s transportation planning division. 'Three and a half meters is a normal lane width, even 3.2. We also use trees and bushes to push people to go slower.' For comparison, in the US many lanes are 12 feet (3.7 meters) wide."
Interstate 25 reopened near #LaBajada after #crashes and stalled vehicles prompted officials to #close the #interstate early Thursday morning.
A jack-knifed semi caused southbound I-25 to be closed.
Crews have since reopened northbound I-25 after clearing the semi off the roadway.
I40 near #Gallup is also very icy.
1.35 million people a year, 3.7K a day, are killed world-wide in vehicle-involved crashes, with another 20-50 million a year seriously injured. The #1 global killer of young people. Via @WHO.
Imagine if we reconsidered our land-use, infrastructure design, speed limits, enforcement, vehicle size, EVERYTHING, to actually try to save those lives?
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