Safety group to review how it rates cars
Safety group to reviewhow it rates cars on safety U.S. regulators are revising the process of assigning safety ratings to new vehicles. It proposes to…
Category: Safety
College athletes hoverboard, but the dangers are well known
They are blamed for hundreds of visits to emergency rooms, banned from airplanes for bursting into flames, and no longer sold at some stores. Better…
Major League Baseball parks want more netting to protect fans
Three weeks after a broken bat entered the first rows of Boston’s Fenway Park and seriously injured a fan, a similar incident occurred at New York’s Citi…
Police car chase deaths have been understated
The U.S. government drastically understated the number of people killed in high-speed police car chases, possibly by thousands of fatalities over several…
Get serious about contact-lens hygiene
Contact wearers know that lens cases should be cleaned every day. Many skip that step, but small shortcuts in caring for contacts increase the risk of eye…
The duration of yellow lights is unpredictable, so be prepared to stop
Think about this … The duration of yellow lights is unpredictable, so be prepared to stop Traffic engineers in the United States have never agreed on…
Bicycle injuries in the 45+ group have increased dramatically since 1998
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, analyzed injury data for adult cyclists using a sample of about 100 hospital emergency…
Bike riders push back against helmet laws
Cycling advocates say they’re not opposed to helmet laws. They’re opposed to their unintended consequences, especially amid the rise of bike-sharing…
Senators want to keep drones in check
After analyzing 891 drone sightings, the Federal Aviation Administration found more than half of the drones were flying too close to an airport. The…
Warren Buffett says .. ‘If cars are better, and they clearly are, drivers must be worse’
Safety experts at the National Safety Council, and insurance companies such as Allstate and Geico, were surprised by the 14 percent increase in fatal auto…