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Important car safety tips to protect you and your family

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Car safety plays a crucial role in avoiding vehicle accidents and their consequences. Before you decide to buy a particular vehicle, determine its safety rating by examining safety tests, along with its roll-over rates.

This will help you make an informed decision on the car to buy, protecting you and other passengers from death or injury during a crash or a collision.

Below are essential car safety tips to protect you and your family during a collision or crash. [Read more…] about Important car safety tips to protect you and your family

How to avoid car accidents 101

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You’re leaving your house, cruising around, and getting some wind in your face. The road before you is open, so you press on the gas pedal, and off you go!

But you forgot that there are crossroads and a car can drive as fast as you and collide any minute.

You are so immersed in your bliss that you ignore the main principle of road safety: don’t drive fast! [Read more…] about How to avoid car accidents 101

How to prioritize road safety within your transport business

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Safety is a top concern for almost every industry but there is a specific importance placed on it within the logistics and transportation industry.

In an arena where so much that is out of your control can impact the safety of your drivers, your vehicles, and the other motorists on the road, figuring out how to take extra measures in the areas that you can control is essential.

Technology has found ways to support your efforts through training and development software as well as opportunities to try and mitigate some on the road issues that are unsafe. [Read more…] about How to prioritize road safety within your transport business

Trees and power lines

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Trees are an important part of our lives; they add aesthetic value to the surrounding environment, improve air and water quality, reduce soil erosion, and provide shade during the scorching summer months.

Likewise, power lines serve the machinery and equipment we interact with every day, adding luxury and efficacy to our lives.

While these two provide amazing benefits, when trees and power lines are in close proximity to roads, they become a potential hazard to motorists and can cause extreme vehicle damages and bodily injuries if they fall over or motorists accidentally run into them.

Read on to find out how to stay safe while driving on roads with trees and power lines. [Read more…] about Trees and power lines

Are autonomous cars safe in bad driving conditions?

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Autonomous vehicles are the future and becoming increasingly common on the roads along with many impressive driverless features.

However, as we move along into the winter months, it is worth raising the question of whether or not these cars are safe in the winter conditions.

This particular time of the year has been known to pose extra challenges on the road. [Read more…] about Are autonomous cars safe in bad driving conditions?

Continental and Vodafone cooperate on road safety

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At the 2019 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Continental and Vodafone showcased the first results of their innovation partnership.

Last summer, the partners announced that they would be working together to increase road safety. The first results confirm this – state-of-the-art communications technologies such as 5G, cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) and mobile edge computing help to better protect all road users.

The 5G-ready tests are taking place under real-life conditions at Vodafone’s 5G Mobility Lab in Aldenhoven, Germany. A start of series production based on these technologies is planned for the beginning of the 2020s.

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