Tag Archives: Vehicle Safety Technologies

Big data in the driver’s seat of connected car technological advances

Big data in the driver’s seat of connected car technological advances

Growth in the automotive industry’s highly integrated and highly saturated connected car systems will yield approximately $14.5 billion in revenue from automotive data assets by 2020, according to a connected car study from IHS Automotive, driven by Polk.

American NTSB report underscores need for electronic logging devices

American NTSB report underscores need for electronic logging devices

American Trucking Associations said the safety recommendations by the National Transportation Safety Board emphasize the need for the Obama Administration to accelerate efforts to mandate electronic logging devices in commercial trucks and to improve its Compliance, Safety, Accountability fleet safety monitoring and measurement system.

car safety technologies evolution

The headlight was at one time a cutting-edge safety item, as autonomous braking is today. Since motor cars were first introduced over 120 years ago, the advancements in safety have been vast and varied.

Many such details we now take for granted, such as automatic windscreen wipers, safety glass and airbags. To highlight the key advancements in car safety that has contributed to lowering road death tolls, Gold Coast Personal Injury Law Firm Smith’s Lawyers have published an infographic which visualises the evolution of car safety features.