Benefits Goals: Safety

611 unique benefits found.

Current generation pedestrian crash avoidance systems can reduce vehicle-pedestrian collisions by 40 percent under certain conditions.
Date Posted: 10/09/2019 | Source Date:
Driver Assistance vehicle technologies have potential to prevent 1.6 million crashes per year.
Date Posted: 09/25/2019 | Source Date:
All-Electronic Toll Collection systems and Hybrid Toll Plazas that support open road tolling experience 73 to 45 percent fewer crashes than Traditional Toll Plazas, respectively.
Date Posted: 09/25/2019 | Source Date:
Simulation found that connected vehicles can reduce secondary crash risk by one-third in areas with high-volume traffic and 25 percent connected vehicle market penetration.
Date Posted: 09/18/2019 | Source Date:
Almost 90 percent of automated shuttle bus riders surveyed in a small-scale field study in Berlin indicated they were not at all worried or only slightly worried about their own sense of safety while riding in an automated shuttle.
Date Posted: 08/26/2019 | Source Date:
Blind spot warning technology contributes to a 23 percent reduction in lane change injury crashes.
Date Posted: 08/15/2019 | Source Date:
Wrong-way driver thermal detection system in Phoenix addressed 33 near-incidents in first six months of operation.
Date Posted: 07/12/2019 | Source Date:
Passive safety treatments were found to be more reliable and affordable than active safety treatments on two-lane rural roads with dangerous horizontal curves in Virginia.
Date Posted: 06/26/2019 | Source Date:
Red-light camera systems can have positive impacts on driver behavior.
Date Posted: 06/26/2019 | Source Date:
Low speed autonomous emergency braking (AEB) can reduce rear-end crashes by 38 percent.
Date Posted: 06/06/2019 | Source Date:
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