Road safety

Campaign Has Made 1.2 Million Children Worldwide Aware of Road Safety

June17, 2008 -- Every year since its launch in 2000, the international ‘Safety For All’ campaign has offered primary school teachers the opportunity to make their students aware of road safety thanks to a free teaching kit and a drawing competition.

This year’s campaign reached out to another 1.2 million children worldwide aged between 7 and 11 years through the teaching kit. Eight countries competed in the drawing competition, with nearly 6,000 entries on the theme of ‘Road safety is our business!’

Applying Innovative Technology In Cars

Martorell, 29-05-2008 -- Fewer road accidents, greater traffic efficiency and safer, more comfortable motoring are the objectives of the eCar Project jointly developed by the SEAT Technical Centre and Telefónica España through the application of Information and Communication Technologies in cars.

SEAT and Telefónica contribute towards improving road safety

Honda Cooperating on Development of Driving Safety Support Systems Using Inter-Vehicle and Road-to-Vehicle Communications to Help Reduce Traffic Accidents

TOKYO, Japan, March 24, 2008 – Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced that it will conduct testing on public roadways of its Driving Safety Support Systems*1 (DSSS) using inter-vehicle and road-to-vehicle communications. The tests, which will be conducted using the “Honda ASV-4” Advanced Safety Vehicle*2 and other vehicles equipped with advanced safety technology, will be carried out between Monday, March 24, and Friday, March 28, on public roadways in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.

BEIJING, March 20, 2008 - Created to raise awareness and education on road safety in China, the "China Road Safety Forum," sponsored by Nissan (China) Investment Co., Ltd. (NCIC), wrapped today here in the capital.

Hosted by the China Automotive Technology & Research Center (CATARC), the forum was attended by more than 80 representatives from the government, universities across China, the research centers for traffic accidents in China, the Swedish Road Administration, the Japanese Institute for Traffic Accident Research and Data Analysis and automotive parts suppliers.

Among the topics discussed at the China Road Safety Forum for further study and cooperation are the following:

* The necessity of analysis of quantitative crash data

THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, January 8/PRNewswire/ -- Using a new research method, the Stichting Onderzoek Navigatiesystemen ("Navigation Systems Research Foundation") has discovered why navigation systems cannot find ring roads in cities. Software errors are the cause. The Foundation predicts a catastrophic development if the authorities do not intervene: more traffic accidents and casualties, and side roads becoming jammed with volumes of traffic for which they were not designed.

DEARBORN, Mich., Dec. 11, 2007 – Results from a five-year study aimed at finding ways to develop, demonstrate and evaluate methods to help minimize the risk of driver distraction and enhance the effectiveness of crash warning systems in vehicles are expected to be released in early 2008 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

Highlights:
* NHTSA’s SAfety VEhicles using adaptive Interface Technologies (SAVE-IT) research project is investigating ways to reduce distraction-related crashes and improve the effectiveness of safety warning system.
* On-going, two-phase research program began in 2003 and is scheduled to be completed in 2008.
* In-vehicle research continues at Ford’s state-of-the-art Virtual Text Track Experiment (VIRTTEX) lab.

Objectives: Reduction in the number of traffic fatalities and casualties with implementation of intelligent technology and new projects

Hanover/Brussels, November 26, 2007. Continental AG, the international automotive com­ponents supplier, today signed the European Road Safety Charter. The goal of the Charter is to halve the number of fatalities on the roads of the European Union (EU) by the year 2010, in other words, a reduction to 25,000 from 50,000 in 2004. With the signatures of Continen­tal’s board executive Dr. Hans-Joachim Nikolin and the European Commission Vice Presi­dent, Jacques Barrot, under the Charter, Continental AG commits itself to supporting this initiative.

Win great prizes every day by answering questions on road safety correctly

Hanover, November 28, 2007 – Now what was the answer to that question? Does double speed mean fourfold braking distance? And what should children remember when they are on their way to visit friends in the evening? Continental AG's Advent Calendar refreshes your general knowledge of road safety with 24 tough questions – twelve each for adults and children. The quiz starts on December 1st on Continental's internet homepage. There are great prizes to be won every day, including an iPod Shuffle, a PC football game, a cotton candy machine and the latest Harry Potter book. The main prize of the draw will be a digital SLR.