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SAFETY TRUCKS * USA & Australia
* DC / USA - NHTSA: Anti-rollover technology saving hundreds of lives annually
Washington,DC,USA -The Detroit News, by David Shepardson -November 30, 2012: -- Electronic stability control — an anti-rollover technology mandated on all passenger vehicles — has saved 2,200 lives over a three-year-period, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday... Electronic stability control was mandated on all light-duty passenger vehicles and trucks under a federal safety regulation issued in April 2007. Automakers had four years to fully comply — and ESC was required on all vehicles starting Sept. 1, 2011, with the 2012 model year... NHTSA's analysis estimates ESC technology saved the lives of a growing number of passenger vehicle occupants each year between 2008 and 2010. There were 634 lives saved in 2008, 705 lives in 2009 and 863 lives in 2010, NHTSA said... ESC senses when a driver may lose control of the vehicle and automatically applies brakes to individual wheels to help stabilize it and avoid a rollover or losing control... In May, NHTSA proposed requiring electronic stability control systems on large commercial trucks and large buses. NHTSA said requiring the heavy-duty fleet to have the technology could prevent up to 56 percent of rollover crashes annually and 14 percent of loss-of-control crashes in large vehicles...
* DC / USA - FMCSA extends field test of dash cam monitoring of road, driver
-Land Line, by Jami Jones -29 Nov 2012: -- A field test of 500 trucks with “on-board safety monitoring” systems has been given the green light to continue for another two years by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration... Current regulations prohibit any device such as a dash cam or toll transponder from being placed more than six inches from the top of the windshield. The regulation’s intent is to protect the driver’s field of vision through the windshield by prohibiting clutter... Transecurity was granted a 90-day exemption from the regulation in July. The company petitioned the agency in August to continue the exemption that allows a field test with 500 trucks equipped with camera-based monitoring systems mounted lower than the regulations allow, but still outside the driver’s line of sight... The field test, according to the Nov. 28 Federal Register notice, is part of FMCSA’s research into the system, which tracks both the road and the driver...
* Missouri / USA - OOIDA urges NHTSA to develop tougher cab crashworthiness standards
Green Valley,MO,USA -Land Line, by Clarissa Kell-Holland -30 Nov 2012: -- The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is urging the National Highway Safety Administration to act fast and develop recommendations about critical cab crashworthiness standards that could possibly save truck drivers’ lives... OOIDA Executive Vice President, Todd Spencer, sent a letter to NHTSA Administrator, David L. Strickland, on Nov. 26, urging the agency to put truckers’ safety at the forefront as outlined in the new highway bill – Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century, or Map 21 – which took effect Oct. 1... MAP-21 included a provision requiring comprehensive analysis on the need for developing crashworthiness standards no later than 18 months after the highway bill’s passage, which was in July...
* Australia - Rumble strips could prevent 3 in 10 head on collisions
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