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The National Traffic Safety Administration is looking for non-contact eye closure monitoring devices to use in tests of “drowsy driver” detection systems. NHTSA says the devices must provide real-time ...

Just weeks after a deadly, high-profile wrong-way car crash in Massachusetts, the state Senate is taking action. On May 21, the body voted unanimously for the Massachusetts Department of ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers published findings on May 29 warning that combining cannabis edibles with alcohol impairs driving more severely than being legally drunk on alcohol alone — and that ...

New cars are required new cars to have monitoring systems to detect impaired driving by 2027. The NHTSA says that the technology doesn't exist yet. Automakers support the measure, but the technology ...

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A woman has credited her iPhone with saving her life after it automatically called emergency services when her car left the road and slid 330 feet down a mountainside. The woman lost control of her ...

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The crash occurred in Deland, about 30 miles north of Orlando. A home security camera shows a group of cyclists in Deland seconds before a pickup truck plowed into them. [ Times files ] Graham Brink ...

This week, several House Republicans reignited a yearslong debate over a law that federally mandates cars to have impaired driving technology, raising concerns about the expanding surveillance state.

Congress mandated it. Automakers acknowledged it. Safety groups rallied behind it. And yet, the ambitious federal push to put drunk driving detection technology inside every new American car appears ...