Posts Tagged ‘safety’
Honda has developed a next-generation airbag designed to better protect passengers in frontal collision scenarios. The company plans to start fitting its vehicles with the new airbag as early as in 2020. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Ca... ...
Ryan Alden, a 39 year-old professional sack of filth/security technician, was charged with 28 felonies after getting caught by the cops doing some incredibly invasive, heinous ****.
From Gizmodo:
Nichols Hills Police Chief Steven *** told News9 that one of the homeowners had called a heat and air company to come and take a look at ...
Two years ago, the EU Aviation Safety Agency warned that some Airbus 350s required a hard reboot every 149 hours to be safe to fly; two years later, most of the affected planes are still being rebooted to cope with the bug.
At least they don't have to close and open all the windows.
The revised AD, ...
Women wearing seatbelts are 73% more likely to be killed or seriously injured in a car crash than men in seatbelts, and while it's not entirely certain why this is, it's a pretty good bet that sampling bias in crash-testing is to blame.
Specifically, until very recently all crash-test dummies were male-bodies; when woman-shaped dummies were ...
Tesla's new Vehicle Safety Report is out, and things are looking good for the electric car maker, especially its Autopilot set of self-driving features.
Tesla's accident data for the first quarter of 2019 shows that there was one accident for e... ...
When it comes to developing and testing self-driving cars or building the software and parts that grant them the power to drive autonomously, it's often considered the wild west here in the U.S.
So to get the future of high-level autonomous dri... ...
Boeing must address the issue before grounded jets fly again. ...
When federal prosecutors drag corporations into court for business practices that hurt or even **** people, it's routine for corporate counsel to ask to have the evidence in the case sealed, and for prosecutors to agree, and for judges to rubberstamp the deal, meaning that the public never finds out about the risks around them.
Nowhere ...
Survivors of London's Grenfell fire, where 72 perished in a tower block with no sprinklers but lots of flammable cladding, are projecting messages on similarly-unsafe buildings in the UK.
The BBC reports that one of the towers, Frinstead House, is a "stone's throw" from Grenfell and still has no fire sprinklers.
The Royal Borough of Kensington ...
A new report from the New York Times details a bureaucratic mess, caused by the overhauling of an A.I. system, that it says is responsible for the two fatal Boeing 737 Max 8 crashes in Oct. 2018 and March 2019.
Boeing allegedly introduced "aggr... ...