By Natalie Draisin Director, North American Office and United Nations Representative FIA Foundation As the school year approaches, parents across the nation are planning schedules, buying new shoes, and experiencing age-old anxieties that come with children growing up too fast. Amidst these preparations, we sometimes forget about the actual journey to school, and important safety issues to consider along the …
Podcast with Roger Lanctot Director, Automotive Connected Mobility TechInsights Roger Lanctot returns to The Bike Lane for a lively, wide-ranging chat with host Jake Sigal about startups trying to penetrate the hard automotive bubble (or fail trying), why one large tech operation is the company everyone loves to hate, why every OEM automotive needs to seek help outside their own …
Want to help make your city a better place to bike? We developed a 15-point, research-based fact sheet to help you push for change. By Martina Haggerty and Kiran Herbert PeopleForBikes Editor’s note: This text was first published online by PeopleForBikes on May 23 and is shared in The Bike Lane with permission. If you’ve ever attended a town hall …
By Clark Haynes, Ph.D. Founder and CEO velo.ai As a lifelong bike commuter, safety has always been my primary concern whenever I embark on two wheels. This concern is grounded in a harsh reality: nearly 1000 bicyclists lose their lives each year in the United States due to collisions with vehicles, and this number has surged in the most recent …
Podcast with Noa Banayan Director of Federal Affairs PeopleForBikes People for Bikes’ Noa Banayan stops by to chat with Jake about policy successes and how her team’s focus largely shifted towards incentives and ways to get e-bikes in the hands of more Americans (and along with those bikes: Helmets, locks, and safety gear!). Links mentioned in this episode: Streetsblog USA …
By Rich Rarey Senior Software Engineer, Bluetooth SME Valtech Mobility Detroit We have long been interested in furthering Vulnerable Road User (VRU) safety at the Valtech Mobility Detroit (formerly Tome Software) Safety Team. Our transmission and reception of SAE Standard J2735 Safety Messages using Bluetooth® Wireless Technology for device-to-vehicle (D2V) communication has been demonstrated in a variety of smartphones and …
Podcast with Phil Koopman Professor Carnegie Mellon University Philip Koopman, author, researcher, and Carnegie Mellon University professor, stops by The Bike Lane for a frank chat with host Jake Sigal about why autonomous vehicles’ driving is worse than a 16 year old human learning how to drive; how insurance companies view the emerging AV industry; why roadside sensors add AV …
A new frontier for virtual edge-case testing to ensure VRU safety in era of autonomous driving By Ekim Yurtsever, Ph.D. Research Associate 2-Engineer The Ohio State University, Center for Automotive Research Our mission at The Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research (CAR) is to become a catalyst in intelligent transportation systems research through interdisciplinary collaborations, both regionally and nationally. …
Podcast with John Quain Founder, Editor-in-Chief OntheRoadtoAutonomy.com John Quain returns to The Bike Lane for a lively, wide-ranging chat with host Jake Sigal about banning e-scooters in urban areas for safety reasons; dangerous e-batteries; the trend to ‘return to bicycles’; the need for secure bicycle parking, and more. Links mentioned in this episode: On The Road to Autonomy The Weekly …
By Roger C. Lanctot Director, Automotive Connected Mobility TechInsights Just a week ago, a tiny fraction (less than 10%) of eligible voters in Paris voted to ban rental electric scooters. Once welcomed with open arms by the city’s leaders, these conveyances have come to be regarded as both dangerous (responsible for dozens of fatal crashes and hundreds of injuries) and …