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Joe Biden Becomes the First Traffic Violence Widower to Hold the U.S. Presidency

Joe Biden is president – the first one in U.S. history who's lost a child and a spouse to our national traffic violence epidemic.

January 20, 2021

Joe Biden Becomes the First Traffic Violence Widower to Hold the U.S. Presidency

Streetsblog USA |Car crashes

NHTSA Blames Everyone But Itself For Crash Spike

The Trump administration's top roadway safety agency offered a final kiss-off to America by blaming drivers for killing each other so much last year – with zero acknowledgement of the administration's own failures to implement life-saving policies.

January 14, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Car Culture

Drivers Are Still Top Polluters, Even During Quarantine

Not even months of quarantine orders that confined millions of Americans to their homes were enough to unseat passenger vehicle trips as the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, a new study finds.

January 14, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Car Culture

Four Ways Cars Pollute Our Lives — Besides the Tailpipe

Even if we electrified our entire vehicle fleet overnight, car pollution would still make us and the planet sick — and policymakers should start pushing for strong policy to mitigate the impacts of non-tailpipe emissions now, a new study finds.

December 14, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Car Culture

Why Highway Teardowns Make Great Infrastructure (and Equity) Investments

Progressive advocates are making the case that new infrastructure money would actually be best spent tearing urban highways down — and reinvesting in the Black and brown communities that those bad road projects tore apart decades ago.

December 9, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Car Culture

Memo to Feds: To Keep Seniors Safe on Our Roads, End Car Dependence

America's top federal safety agency is raising awareness this week about safety for older drivers, but largely ignoring how car dependence often forces seniors to take the wheel even when they can no longer do so safely.

December 8, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Car crashes

Distracted Driving Skyrocketing During the Pandemic

A new study finds that a shocking 57 percent of all drivers were using their cell phones within 60 seconds of impact — and transportation safety leaders are doing almost nothing to stop it, despite a preponderance of proven strategies.

December 3, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Autonomous cars

Study: Drivers More Reckless When Their Cars Have More ‘Safe’ AV Tech

Automated vehicle technology was supposed to end car crashes forever — but a new study suggests that the more automated a car gets, the more reckless its driver may become.

November 19, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Autonomous cars

Feds to (Finally) Explore Drunk Driving Prevention Tech

We have the technology we need to stop drunk driving right now. Why aren't we using it?

November 15, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Automakers

As Biden Campaigned on Green Cars, U.S. Truck Sales Soared

A wave of U.S. car buyers nearly tied the all-time record for truck and SUV purchases, just weeks before the American people at large elected a President who wants to get rid of gas-guzzlers altogether by 2050.

November 10, 2020

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