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NewsJanuary 30, 2013

Toyota Receives SAE Automotive Safety Engineering Award

The Society of Automotive Engineers has given its prestigious SAE Ralph H. Isbrandt Automotive Safety Engineering Award to the authors of a technical paper summarizing a one-and-a-half-year-long Toyota study of driver injury mechanism in professional auto racing.

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NewsJanuary 28, 2013

New Illinois Traffic Laws That Went Into Effect in January, 2013

At the beginning of the year a number of new traffic laws went into effect in the state of Illinois, two of them regarding the use of cell phones while driving and a third regarding proper safety procedures following an accident that results in only damage to a vehicle.

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NewsJanuary 24, 2013

Ford Fusion and Fusion Hybrid Earn NHTSA's Top Vehicle Safety Rating

The 2013 Fusion and Fusion Hybrid received the top Overall Vehicle Score in NHTSA New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) testing, which combines vehicle performance in frontal and side-impact crash tests and resistance to rollover.

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NewsJanuary 23, 2013

TRW Launches Passive Entry System On New Ram Truck

TRW Automotive Holdings Corp., an automotive safety systems manufacturer, brings its Passive Entry system to Chrysler's new 2013 Ram trucks, offering a greater level of convenience than traditional Remote Keyless Entry (RKE) systems.

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NewsJanuary 23, 2013

Safety-Kleen and EcoPower Fund Fellows at CU-ICAR

The Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) has partnered with Safety-Kleen (a Clean Harbors company), a leader in used oil recycling and re-refining, parts cleaning and environmental solutions, and EcoPower, Safety-Kleen’s re-refined motor oil, to give teachers new tools to excite students in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

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NewsJanuary 16, 2013

2014 Acura MDX to Include Multiple Advanced Safety Technologies

The 2014 Acura MDX Prototype debuted this week, providing a glimpse at the third-generation of the luxury SUV. When the 2014 MDX launches later this year, it will showcase a number of advanced safety technologies, including some designed to greatly improve driver visibility.

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NewsJanuary 15, 2013

GreenRoad Recognizes 2012 Fleet Elite Members for Safe Driving

Fleet Elite status is awarded to GreenRoad drivers who maintain a GreenRoad Safety Score of five or less for the full 2012 calendar year, and log more than 500 GreenRoad driving hours.

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NewsJanuary 3, 2013

IIHS Says Midsize Family Cars Outperform Luxury Counterparts in Frontal Crash Tests

In this video of new safety testing involving small overlap frontal crashes by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), the organization found that midsize family cars outperformed the luxury models tested.

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NewsJanuary 3, 2013

New Laws Affecting California Motorists Now in Effect

2013 brings in multiple new laws affecting drivers in the state of California. One law allows drivers to use voice-activated technology while driving, which is already being challenged by the National Safety Council.

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NewsJanuary 2, 2013

U.S. Department of Transportation Orders Two Dayes Trucking, Two Dayes Transport to Shut Down

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Two Dayes Trucking and Two Dayes Transport to immediately cease all transportation services.

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