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Most Americans--55% of those surveyed in a recent TIME/CNN poll--believe SUVs are safer than cars because of their sheer size. But that's not necessarily true. In 2001, the most recent year for which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has figures, there were 162 deaths per million SUVs (including crossovers) and 157 deaths per million cars--meaning the death rate for SUVs was slightly higher. Why? There are several reasons, but in blunt comments last month, Dr. Jeffrey Runge, the NHTSA administrator, highlighted the most important: partly because of their high center of gravity--a feature...
...drive, they can go through anything." Orlando, who owns two SUVs, had to go on TV one recent snowy morning to ask SUV drivers to slow down. "We had a really high number of accidents that day, a lot of them involving SUVs." A study by the Washington State traffic safety commission found that between 1993 and 2000, SUVs accounted for 9.1% of the vehicles involved in all fatal crashes; however, they were 16.6% of the vehicles involved in fatal crashes in icy and snowy conditions...
During the most serious scuffle, officers kicked at least two demonstrators who were already lying on the sidewalk. One police officer struck a woman lying on a traffic island at the intersection of Mass. Ave and Cambridge St., and said, "If someone kicks me, I'm going to kick them back...
When Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra vowed to eliminate illegal drugs from "every square inch of the country" by Apr. 30, listeners could be forgiven their doubts. This was the man, after all, who once pledged to untangle Bangkok's perpetually snarled roads. Traffic, it turns out, is still a problem, but early results of this new drug war suggest that traffickers are becoming an endangered species. During the first week of February, the police announced that 9,232 alleged dealers were arrested, and nearly 7,000 more surrendered. Authorities seized upwards of 41 million amphetamine pills. It seemed Thaksin...
...Traffic moves faster on the information highway, and people are using the Web to help reduce congestion on the tarmac too. At www.autobahn.nrw.de, drivers in North-Rhine Westphalia can see a real-time simulation of traffic conditions on its 2,250 km of motorway. The man behind the site, Michael Schreckenberg of Duisburg-Essen University, is now at work on the world's largest traffic-information system, using sensor-gathered data to channel travel advice to TV, radio and motorway screens. If you still can't face the rush hour, try staying home like the 2% of Europeans...