GM Wants Cars to Warn Other Vehicles of Imminent Collisions With Pedestrians
7 Jul 2023, 09:46 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The American carmaker has patented a new system whose purpose is to allow cross-traffic warnings between vehicles on the road
NHTSA Wants Automatic Emergency Braking To Become Mandatory on Nearly All Vehicles
31 May 2023, 23:06 UTC · By: Florin Amariei / Automakers must pay attention because there might soon be a drastic change regarding mandatory equipment on new cars and trucks
Ford Explores Smartphone-Based Tech That Could Alert Drivers of Pedestrians and Bicyclists
20 Sep 2022, 08:40 UTC · By: Mircea Mazuru / Ford is looking into a BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) smartphone app that alerts the driver if it identifies at-risk pedestrians, bicyclists, and others
Cyclist Uses an Air Horn To Scare Pedestrians off the Bike Lane, but It Backfires
24 Jul 2022, 18:30 UTC · By: Florin Amariei / Isn’t a bell enough to attract people’s attention? This person thinks something more potent is needed. Unfortunately, it didn’t work as intended
E-Scooters Got A Bad Reputation and Superpedestrian Wants to Change That
20 Jul 2021, 16:50 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / Superpedestrian wants to change the bad rep of electric scooters by implementing safety measures that keep pedestrians protected from irresponsible riders.
Rundown Piaggio Ape Turned Parklet Is an Awesome Example of Malicious Compliance
23 Jun 2021, 05:43 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Adam Tranter’s parklet sparks intense debate on whether using a public parking space for such a project is giving back to the community or stealing from it
Smartphone Zombies Get LED Sidewalk Lights in Tel Aviv
15 Mar 2019, 13:25 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The city is deploying a trial to see if phone-distracted pedestrians can be made more attentive to traffic before crossing the street
Pedestrian Slips And Falls on Ice, Saves The Landing
10 Dec 2018, 18:58 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Viral video shows the best save of the cold season: it doesn’t matter how hard the fall is, as long as you manage to pull off an artistic landing
Fans Get Elvis Presley Traffic Lights in German City He Was Stationed In
10 Dec 2018, 10:36 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / It took 3 months for the city to come up with a proper tribute to The King, who was stationed here with the U.S. army between 1958 and 1960
Britain’s Zombie Pedestrians Could Get New Pavements to Keep Them Safe
4 Sep 2018, 12:33 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Adviser to the Department of Transport calls for new signs, “text walking lanes” for smartphone addicts, as a means to keep them out of harm’s way.
Woman Trips Over Speed Bump In Parking Lot, Lawsuit In Progress
8 Jun 2017, 14:46 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / A lawsuit between a woman who tripped over a speed bump and the authorities that manage the parking lot where it happened is in progress. It started in 2015
Dashcam Footage Shows Driver Casually Plowing Through A Group of Pedestrians
28 Feb 2017, 16:12 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Russia's dashcams capture seemingly endless accidents, so choosing something newsworthy is becoming difficult for editors across the world. Here's a scary one
Your Future Autonomous Car Could Talk To Pedestrians, Better Hope It's Polite
31 Aug 2016, 14:10 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / The only voice most cars have is the engine, that uses the exhaust as its vocal chords. In the future, cars could be able to "talk" to pedestrians
Small Bridge Closed Off In Germany So Pokemon Go Players Could Hunt Safely
29 Jul 2016, 09:12 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Has this Pokemon thing gone too far? While some cities are trying to ban the game, the mayor of Dusseldorf has closed a small bridge for Pokemon Go players
Shock Bracelets to Keep Pedestrians from Abusing Self-Driving Cars?
1 Jun 2016, 12:38 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / We've come to accept that in a few years, autonomous cars will become the norm, but do we really realize what that's going to mean for all traffic dwellers?
Pedestrian Fast Lanes Are Being Considered, but Are They Really a Good Thing?
6 Nov 2015, 18:17 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / If they keep this up, pretty soon we'll be signaling with our arms before overtaking the person walking in front. Or something like that
smart Unveils The Dancing Traffic Light Concept
17 Sep 2014, 13:14 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The guys over at smart have developed a simple, yet amusing idea that could save lives by making pedestrians actually wait for the green light, before they cross the street. Called Dancing Traffic ...
Wacky Laws, Uncanny Regulations, Zombie People
25 Dec 2010, 07:32 UTC · By: Charles Darveight / Recently, there’s been quite some fuss over a new traffic regulation which, by initial accounts, is quite strange (to say the least) and has good chances of being enforced in Paris. Specific...
Toyota's Dark Room: the Kurapika Box
19 May 2010, 09:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Japanese carmaker Toyota announced today it will start a new pedestrian education program, designed around what it calls the "Kurapika Box," an educational tool to be used to showcase the ...
Bosch Night Vision Plus Identifies Pedestrians
16 Nov 2009, 09:52 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Global automotive and industrial technology supplier Bosch has just released details of its enhanced night vision system, that is now even safer for both drivers and pedestrians. Dubbed Night Vision...