An article in the Albany Times Union by staff writer Steve Hughes on Oct. 27 caught my attention. It stated that 12,895 speeding tickets were issued to drivers in Albany who exceeded the posted 20-mph speed limit in school zones by more than 10 mph above the limit. And that was in only four ...

Crash avoidance technologies can assist with driving and reduce crashes, but only if drivers use them. A new study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety measured current use of front crash prevention, lane departure (i.e., lane departure warning or lane departure prevention), and speed ...

Some drivers have never been in a collision — some have been in many. In either case, the odds are that you will be in three to four crashes within your lifetime. There are more than 300,000 traffic crashes in New York state each year. Nationwide there are approximately six million ...

Last week’s article was a call from experts and six U.S. senators for the National Highway Traffic Safety administration to exert more oversight in vehicle automation. Here’s why. In a study of driver behavior by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Massachusetts Institute ...

A few months ago, six U.S. senators sounded the alarm about the hands-off approach to automation taken by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In a letter to the agency, they warned that inappropriate use of partial driving automation systems, fueled in part by misleading ...

Since Sept. 20, approximately one mile of U.S. Route 11 on the east side of Malone is one lane in each direction with a two-way left turn (TWLT) lane (also called a center turn lane) in the middle. For at least 50 years, this section had been four lanes, essentially two lanes eastbound and ...