A recent study funded by the auto insurance industry has shown that new technology installed into vehicles can make a significant difference in helping to prevent rear-end collisions and fender benders that occur at slow speeds such as in traffic jams. The research was performed by the Highway Loss Data Institute, the research branch of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. It discovered that when a 2010 Volvo XC60 was fitted with a special technology feature called City Safety, which is designed for collision avoidance, the vehicles were much less…
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Insurance study shows red light cameras are saving lives
The findings by the institute, which is a nonprofit group funded by the insurance industry, states that in 14 of the largest cities in America, 159 lives were saved during the time-frame of 2004 to 2008 due to red-light cameras. The design of the camera is to capture motor vehicles that are running red lights. Researchers claim if they had been operating in all large cities in America during this time-frame, 815 lives would have been saved. Red-light crashes or T-bone crashes as they are often referred to are some…
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