Some drivers have never been in a collision — some have been in many. In either case, the odds are that you will be in three to four crashes within your lifetime. There are more than 300,000 traffic crashes in New York state each year. Nationwide there are approximately six million ...

Last week’s article was a call from experts and six U.S. senators for the National Highway Traffic Safety administration to exert more oversight in vehicle automation. Here’s why. In a study of driver behavior by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Massachusetts Institute ...

A few months ago, six U.S. senators sounded the alarm about the hands-off approach to automation taken by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In a letter to the agency, they warned that inappropriate use of partial driving automation systems, fueled in part by misleading ...

Since Sept. 20, approximately one mile of U.S. Route 11 on the east side of Malone is one lane in each direction with a two-way left turn (TWLT) lane (also called a center turn lane) in the middle. For at least 50 years, this section had been four lanes, essentially two lanes eastbound and ...

New York state’s Department of Motor Vehicles reports an increase in the number of vehicles on the road with tinted windows that exceed legal standards for light transmittance. Some even have a full windshield tint. While in some cases DMV will issue a medical exemption and certificate, it ...

Ian Reagan, a safety researcher at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, recently drove a vehicle with Intelligent Speed Assistance 35 miles, from his home in Annapolis, Maryland, to his office in Arlington, Virginia. That commute runs smack through Washington, D.C. “If I’m lucky, ...