The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports 3,275 people were killed in a single year — an average of about nine deaths every day. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines ...

Apr. 14—Despite the fact that automobiles are now designed with more safety features than ever before, the rate of traffic accidents and fatalities continue to rise. The National Safety Council says ...

Driving is a high-speed decision-making task. When essential vehicle controls require screen navigation, cognitive load increases. Reaction time slows. Situational awareness narrows. At 65 mph, a ...

Near-miss moments on the road are starting to feel less like flukes and more like […] ...

A year ago, texting and dialing while driving was the most frequent risky behavior of Central Oregon Truck Company (COTC) drivers. This summer, it fell to No. 7 on the fleet’s list of at-risk ...

Driving is a routine task that many take for granted. Yet traffic incidents remain a leading cause of work-related death and injury in the United States, with an annual average of 33,000 fatalities ...

New research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found partial automation systems in vehicles increase the likelihood of drivers engaging in distracted behaviors, such as checking their ...

Plenty of us are guilty of hearing the alert from our phones and finding it difficult to resist the temptation to glance down, maybe even tap out a quick response. But during National Distracted ...

Car cabins are shifting back to tactile controls, giving drivers faster access to core functions and reducing distraction on road.