😍WingDriver #Portugal has committed to #RoadSafety by developing a #smartphone 📲solution to help prevent #TrafficAccidents by sending an alert ⚠️if distracted or #fatigued. Check out the other functions it has! 📖👉 https://ow.ly/6u7b50P9gBF #AI #VisionZero #SaferRoads https://t.co/5HXi3lfXQu

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERSCharter/status/1679063095254175744

How #Finland Put #Traffic Crashes on Ice

The Nordic nation’s rate of vehicle fatalities is a fraction of the toll in the US, despite a harsh climate and ice-covered streets. Here’s how the Finns do traffic safety.

by David Zipper, CityLab

"Instead of committing its future to the automobile, as so many US cities did in [during the 1960s], Helsinki kept its streetcars and embarked on a massive transit expansion. The city constructed the world’s northernmost subway, which opened in 1982. As of 2016, roughly a quarter of urban trips in Finland occur on foot, over 9% by transit, and 7.5% by bike. (In the Helsinki metropolitan area, which has a population about 1.3 million, those numbers are even higher.) One in seven Finns live in rural areas, roughly equivalent to the US share.

"In Helsinki, city officials leverage street design to reinforce lower speed limits. 'We deliberately have narrow lanes, so the driver doesn’t feel comfortable,' said Reetta Putkonen, the director of Helsinki’s transportation planning division. 'Three and a half meters is a normal lane width, even 3.2. We also use trees and bushes to push people to go slower.' For comparison, in the US many lanes are 12 feet (3.7 meters) wide.

"Finland’s approach to truly reckless speeding is unique. If a Finn is caught going more than 20 km/h over the posted limit, the resulting fine scales with the speeder’s income. Such tickets can reach eye-popping levels; in 2002 a Nokia executive was slapped with a 116,000-euro fine, equivalent to two weeks’ income, for driving his motorcycle 75 km/h in a 50 km/h zone."

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-finland-put-traffic-crashes-on-ice?utm_source=pocket-newtab

#PublicTransportation #Bicycling #TrafficAccidents #SlowItDown

With more package deliveries 🚛 #TrafficAccidents rising. Austria's Federal Minister has called 🔊 for more to support the Charter! 🤝#RoadSafety matters! Find out more 👉 http://ow.ly/umkh50OBEvr #VisionZero

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Referenced link: https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-self-healing-lens-material-traffic-accidents.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-self-healing-lens-material-traffic-accidents.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/TechXplore_com/status/1660635832112365572#m

RT by @physorg_com: Development of #self-healing lens material to prevent #trafficaccidents in self-driving cars >@ACS_AMI https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.2c21058 https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-self-healing-lens-material-traffic-accidents.html

Hope they will implement this in Thailand as well.
You see the foreigners driving drunk, no helmet, and in flipflops, in the holiday spots.
Like they would do that back home??

#asia #southeastasia #travel #holiday #bali #thailand #tourism #trafficaccidents

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/14/bali-to-ban-tourists-from-renting-motorbikes

Please support this Kenyan-Aussie family in terribly tragic circumstances
https://gofund.me/00512936

#roadsafety #trafficaccidents #MelbourneNews

Friends, Colleagues Mourn Death of Middletown Lawmaker
Author: Hugh McQuaid

https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2023/01/05/friends-colleagues-mourn-death-of-middletown-lawmaker/

#StateCapitol #1200pThursday #400pThursday #quentinqwilliams #trafficaccidents #wrong-waydrivers

Friends, Colleagues Mourn Death of Middletown Lawmaker
Author: Hugh McQuaid

https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2023/01/05/friends-colleagues-mourn-death-of-middletown-lawmaker/

#StateCapitol #400pThursday #quentinqwilliams #trafficaccidents #wrongwaydrivers

RT @euobs: [Opinion] It is estimated that in 2019 at least 70,000 people in the EU died from #asbestos-related reasons — more than three times the number of people killed in #trafficaccidents.
@nvillumsen
#EUWeekInReview
https://euobserver.com/opinion/156487

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/nvillumsen/status/1599061608122109953