Auto Safety and Design

In the past fifty years, the car crash death rate has dropped by nearly 80 percent in the United States. And one of the reasons for that drop has t... (2017)

It seems counterintuitive, but there’s evidence that getting rid of signals, signs and barriers might actually make streets a lot safer. Towns all ... (2017)

In the 1920s, auto groups redefined who owned the city streets. (2015)

In a collision, a car's airbag has a tiny fraction of a second in which to inflate—which is why airbags use explosives. (2018)

The taste for tiny electric vehicles has become a quirky subplot in China’s clean-energy ambitions, with sales more than twice that of regular elec... (2019)