The driving profession is unsafe. Taxi drivers and ride-hail drivers, who drive for apps like Uber and Lyft, face many safety risks on the road, from accidents and injuries to harassment and violence.
Social Sciences
Oct 2, 2023
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Researchers from The Pennsylvania State University and the University of South Carolina published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines a digital marketing campaign's impact on improving low consumer recall ...
Social Sciences
Aug 3, 2021
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A new study from the Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found that teen drivers and drivers 65 years and older—two age groups at a higher risk of being involved ...
Social Sciences
Aug 27, 2020
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Health and safety risks from product consumption, including obesity, vaping, drug misuse and texting while driving, as well as circumstances surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, pose significant problems in the United States ...
Social Sciences
Jun 10, 2020
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Nearly two dozen states and several cities on Wednesday filed a legal challenge to the Trump administration's rollback of Obama-era mileage standards, saying science backed up the old regulations developed with the help of ...
Environment
May 28, 2020
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Is the reporting of media outlets biased in favor of firms that advertise with them? A new study looked at the relationship between advertising by car manufacturers in U.S. newspapers and news coverage of car safety recalls ...
Economics & Business
May 22, 2020
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Cars built in the last decade have been shown to be safer than older models, including in the most common types of crashes—frontal collisions. However, a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Virginia's ...
Automotive
Jul 10, 2019
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A Tesla Model S involved in a fatal crash with a semitrailer in Florida March 1 was operating on the company's semi-autonomous Autopilot system, federal investigators have determined.
Automotive
May 16, 2019
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says in a new report that safer restraint systems are needed for the back seats of cars. The study finds that rear-seat safety has not kept pace with front-seat safety and it has ...
Automotive
Apr 26, 2019
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Even light rain significantly increases your risk of a fatal car crash, a new study finds.
Social Sciences
Apr 23, 2019
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