Tricking out a tricked-out pickup
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Ryder’s 2017 Top Technician Competition
Every year, Ryder System hosts a global competition for its corps of 5,900 maintenance technicians located in North American and the United Kingdom. Some 1,800 Ryder technicians competed in the regional round, whittling their numbers down to just six for the final round, held this year in Nashville, TN. Who would win the $50,000 cash prize and title of “top technician”? (Photos: Ryder System)
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BTS named dealer for Stoughton in Ontario, Quebec
Breadner Trailer Sales (BTS) has been designated as the exclusive dealer of Stoughton brand refrigerated trailers in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec in Canada.
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BestDrive opens commercial tire center in Kansas City
BestDrive, a commercial tire dealer and retreader focusing on Continental tire offerings, officially opened its newest location in Kansas City, KS. BestDrive noted it now has 21 commercial tire centers across the United States, with plans to expand into eight additional states by the end of 2018.
BestDrive's Kansas City tire center is a 32,000-sq.-ft. retail and service space. Less than two miles from the I-35 and I-635 interchange, the location is accessible for its long-haul, regional haul, and on/off-road fleet customers.
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The toughest question facing self-driving vehicles
It may be the trickiest debate in the self-driving vehicle space. In a situation where an accident is unavoidable what should the vehicle do? Does it sacrifice the occupant to potentially save a school bus of children?
Researchers at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück, Germany have been using virtual reality to study if algorithms can be developed based on human behavior.
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Nevada officials say autonomous-truck era drawing near
April Sanborn was part of the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles in 2011 when the state became the first to adopt regulations allowing the testing of autonomous vehicles.
She was also there four years later when the Freightliner Inspiration truck made its world premiere at the Hoover Dam.
Sanborn, now Nevada DMV's program manager for the autonomous vehicle program, said the rapid developments in the autonomous space has her convinced autonomous-driving trucks will soon be a reality.
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Speed Kills— But You Can Help Stop It
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“You can't tackle our rising epidemic of roadway deaths without tackling speeding,” said NTSB Acting Chairman Robert L. Sumwalt, “and you can't tackle speeding without the most current research. Speed kills." Photo: Minnesoto DOT/Julie Bottolfson
'>“You can't tackle our rising epidemic of roadway deaths without tackling speeding,” said NTSB Acting Chairman Robert L. Sumwalt, “and you can't tackle speeding without the most current research. Speed kills." Photo: Minnesoto DOT/Julie Bottolfson
'>A new report issued by the National Transportation Safety Board points an unwavering finger at the deadly toll that speeding by motorists keeps taking on our highways.
In its study, NTSB found that speeding was linked to 112,580 fatalities resulting from highway crashes of passenger cars between 2005 and 2014. In that same period, only car crashes involving alcohol consumption killed more persons… 368 more to be exact, for a ghastly total of 112,948. In no regard, then, is there any good news here.
But the thing about speeding— and the board gets right to this point in a press release announcing the actions it is taking to hopefully reduce this cause of carnage— is that to speed is not socially taboo. That is to say, there is no stigma to getting caught speeding, unlike with driving drunk or drug-impaired or perhaps, for that matter, driving while fatigued or distracted.
The other thing about speeding, so it occurs to me anyway, is that intentional speeding is not necessarily driven by other factors. Yes, drivers who are impaired by consuming alcohol or drugs or who are distracted by texting etc. might well speed (I'm assuming that when tired behind the wheel— as I have been more times than I care to admit-- drivers tend to poke along or drift off the road rather than accelerate much, but correct me if I'm wrong). But the speeding driver is more than likely not to pull all the other fatal stunts that a drunk or drugged or distracted or fatigued driver might inadvertently pull before causing a crash.
My point being that if ...Read the rest of this story