Everything in this country moves. So, a safe and efficient transportation network is vital to our economic well-being. I have made it my top priority to invest and modernize the way we move people, goods and ideas.
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Rural America is far too familiar with the need for increased highway safety. Treacherous conditions created by semitrucks, cars and farm equipment converging on two-lane highways have resulted in higher fatalities than in urban areas.
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As a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, I’m very concerned about making our highways safer. I’m especially concerned about the impact of autonomous cars and trucks and how they’ll interact with human drivers.
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GHSA projects pedestrian fatalities remained near 6,000 for the second consecutive year in 2017, a trend we cannot let continue. Education, enforcement and engineering measures must work together to address this issue.
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The Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH) is critical to roadway safety and reaching Toward Zero Deaths on our roadways.
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ATA and the trucking industry are committed to highway safety. We work closely with our local, state and federal lawmakers, and the Administration, to advocate for proper investments in our infrastructure and increased highway safety measures. The trucking industry spends at least $9.5 billion annually on safety technology.
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Across our county, millions of hardworking professional truck drivers travel America’s roads each day. Truck drivers deliver everything we rely on, including our food, clothes and medications, and work tirelessly to complete their deliveries safely and on time.
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Autonomous vehicles (AVs) could revolutionize highway safety, but the technology has been involved in at least three crash deaths, and numerous auto executives admit they’re years away from being ready.
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It’s a saying as true as it is trite, yet too often we discount it in highway safety. Over 90% of crashes involve human error, but is that such a surprise when, “everybody makes mistakes?”
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Fourteen years ago, someone made the wrong choice to drink and drive. Because of that, my son Dustin was killed. More than TEN THOUSAND people are killed every year because of this 100 percent preventable crime.
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As data breaches become more frequent and we learn more about the Cambridge Analytica leak, it’s clear that protecting users’ online information is a time-sensitive challenge that must be addressed quickly.
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The past several weeks have made clear that people want more information about how Facebook works and the controls they have over their information. And today at F8, we’re sharing some of the first steps we’re taking to better protect people’s privacy.
