All the stories tagged with road safety

Denso unveils drowsiness monitor for drivers

12/06/2011, Driving outstation can be quite a tiring experience, especially if you travel alone. This usually results in a long and boring drive and usually along the way you start to feel a little drowsy. This can prove to be rather [...]

CrashStat helps pedestrians and cyclists plan safer routes

10/14/2011, Unless you’ve lived long enough in a particular city or neighborhood, you wouldn’t know which particular areas are more prone to vehicular accidents, which means as a pedestrian or cyclist, you could be entering a dangerous intersection without realizing it, [...]

Toyota Prius to get sound option, offers pedestrians more protection

08/24/2010, Active as well as passive safety should rank pretty high in any vehicle manufacturer’s To Do list, and it is comforting to know that Toyota’s Prius will soon come with an optional under-the-hood speaker system. This is a rather strange [...]

New program introduces lane safety

04/07/2010, Accidents can happen anytime, anywhere, which are why they are called just that. While some might be minor, an automobile accident is always something dangerous, with many permutations available for an accident to happen. Most of it boils down to [...]

Japan Hybrid Cars Now Hum

07/06/2009, Want to set up a vehicle choir? Perhaps we could get a bunch of mechanics to fine tune near-silent hybrid cars found in Japan as they could all mandated to come with a noise-making device when switched from fuel to [...]