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AAA Texas: Automatic Emergency Braking Absent When You Need It Most

By Daniel Armbruster & Joshua Zuber September 27, 2022 Automotive, Transportation and Traffic Safety

Coppell, TX — Touted as lifesaving, crash-preventing tech, Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) is standard equipment in most new cars sold in the United States. Over the years, AEB has successfully stemmed rear-end crashes, which often result in injuries, property...

AAA Texas: “Miles-to-Empty” Warning - New Research Finds Drivers Should Not Rely Too Heavily on In-Dash Fuel Economy Display

By Daniel Armbruster & Joshua Zuber July 27, 2021 Automotive, Transportation and Traffic Safety

Coppell, TX — In-dash fuel economy displays estimate the number of miles a vehicle gets per gallon, including how many “miles to empty.” AAA tested the accuracy of these systems and found their estimates vary significantly over shorter trips or are dependent on the...

AAA Texas: Today’s Vehicle Technology Must Improve Before Public Trusts Self-Driving Vehicles

By Daniel Armbruster & Joshua Zuber February 24, 2021 Transportation and Traffic Safety

Coppell, TX — Automakers may already hold the key to improving public acceptance of self-driving cars: fine-tuning existing vehicle technology. AAA’s annual automated vehicle survey finds that only 22% of people feel manufacturers should focus on developing...

AAA Texas: New Crash Tests Reveal Modest Speed Increases Can Have Deadly Consequences

By Daniel Armbruster & Joshua Zuber January 28, 2021 Transportation and Traffic Safety

Coppell, TX — Drivers want to save time, and local transportation agencies want to improve traffic flow, but at what cost? With posted speed limits increasing on roadways around the country, a vehicle's ability to protect drivers in crashes is in doubt.

AAA Finds Active Driving Assistance Systems Do Less to Assist Drivers and More to Interfere

By Daniel Armbruster August 06, 2020 Automotive, Transportation and Traffic Safety

Coppell, TX — AAA automotive researchers found that over the course of 4,000 miles of real-world driving, vehicles equipped with active driving assistance systems experienced some type of issue every 8 miles, on average. Researchers noted instances of trouble with the...

AAA Texas: It’s Time to Bring U.S. Headlight Standards Out of the Dark

By Daniel Armbruster April 15, 2019 Automotive, Transportation and Traffic Safety

Coppell, TX — – Driving at night carries the highest fatality rate for both drivers and pedestrians but could be made safer by headlight technology already on the roads in Europe and Canada. New research from AAA found that European vehicles equipped with adaptive...

AAA Texas: Study Illuminates the Dangers of Driving with Cloudy Headlights

By Daniel Armbruster December 12, 2018 Automotive, Insurance & Consumer Tips, Transportation and Traffic Safety

Coppell, TX — New research from AAA reveals that clouded or yellowed headlights generate only 20 percent of the amount of light that new headlights do, leading to dangerous nighttime driving conditions. This decrease is caused by sunlight damage to protective plastic...

Teen Drivers Put Everyone At Risk

June 04, 2015 Transportation and Traffic Safety

Nearly two-thirds of people injured or killed in a crash involving a teen driver are people other than the teen behind the wheel, according to a new report released by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. In 2013 alone, 371,645 people were injured and...