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TRUCKING SAFETY * USA - Stepping up for
Orlando,FL,USA -Fleet Owner, by Sean Kilcarr -Feb 11, 2009: -- It didn’t take much convincing for vp of safety Bob Petrancosta to get Con-way Inc. involved in a long-term government-sponsored program to test a variety of new safety systems... The LTL carrier, joined a 54-month, $32.2 million dollar testing program sponsored by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to analyze the effectiveness of forward collision warning systems, lane departure warning (LDW) technology, and blind spot detection (BDS) systems several years ago for a simple reason. Petrancosta said the program would not only save Con-way money, but save lives too...
* Do the Clean Power Bump
USA -earth2tech, by David Ehrlich -February 10, 2009: -- Start aiming for the potholes! Engineers on both sides of the Atlantic have come up with different ways to get the cars of the future to generate power just from hitting a few bumps — a cleantech dream, an evil plot from the makers of Dramamine, or a trend in harnessing kinetic energy?... In the U.S. students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created shock absorbers that can harness energy when a vehicle hits a bump... And at the same time a designer in the UK has created speed bumps that can generate power when bumped... Hydraulics for clean power. And even better as a combo — picture driving cars with energy generating shock absorbers over roads covered in power generating speed bumps. Sales of drive-thru coffee might drop, but clean energy goes up... MIT said the shocks have already drawn interest from the U.S. military as well as several truck makers. And the cleantech speed bumps could be rolled out by 2010, potentially going nationwide after that...Labels: trucking safety
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