One of two firefighting helicopters that collided in midair over a Southern California brush fire lacked an electronic warning device that alerts pilots to approaching aircraft — a critical deficiency ...

A vehicle safety system that applies the brakes to avoid a forward collision. Based on driving speed and distance to the vehicle ahead, determined by radar, a collision avoidance system warns the ...

Creating safer rail operations through artificial intelligence applications. Around 2016, Derel Wust, founder of Australian software engineering provider 4Tel, approached the robotics laboratory at th ...

The manufacturer rather than the consumer is responsible for including available and safely designed safety systems to mitigate or avoid foreseeable accidents. When a vehicle manufacturer designs and ...

Several different types of crash avoidance technologies now exist, with amazing capabilities. Some effectively sharpen drivers’ senses, while others actually take control of various vehicle parameters ...

Training is a critical step when incorporating collision avoidance technology into fleets, according to representatives from the trucking industry. Todd Porter, vice president of safety for Sentinel ...

A new collision avoidance system, now available on Freightliner Trucks, gives drivers another tool to improve safety. The OnGuard Collision Safety System uses the vehicle’s foundation brakes to ...

“The items on the list as adopted are our best chance to make progress toward safer transportation,” said NTSB Chair Robert Sumwalt during its April 6 virtual board meeting. The National ...

Crashes may be less frequent as the technology improves in collision avoidance systems, but the impact of partially automated driving remains murky. When advanced front crash prevention systems were ...

McCarthy said a driving factor for him and Knight was the bottom line: AGCAS saves lives. The 412th Test Wing recently published the technical report on the F-35 Automatic Ground and Collision ...

An array of technologies are available to help truck drivers avoid, or at least mitigate, vehicle collisions. There are systems that assist with obstacle detection, warn of lane departure, forward ...

Almost 6,300 pedestrians were killed in 2018 in the United States, the highest number since 1990, federal officials said this month. Collision-avoidance systems on many new vehicles could reduce that ...