Worse, the vast amount of truck mileage will have a huge carbon footprint and increase the risk of traffic accidents and fatalities: Large trucks accounted for 8 percent of all fatal traffic accidents in the U.S. according to the most recent data.
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It is doubtful, however, whether even this massive investment can keep up with the rising accidents and traffic congestion that the country endures.
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The number of traffic accidents in China rose 36 percent, to 3.9 million in 2010, resulting in one death every nine minutes, according to the Public Security Ministry.
Since launching about a year ago, the company has partnered with the University of Maryland to simulate emergency responses to traffic accidents, and the U.S. Army has begun using its software to train soldiers in responding to improvised explosive devices, a common threat in Iraq.
Everyone agrees that the number of deaths from traffic accidents around 500 this year, or five for every hour of the four-day festival is out of hand.
According to statements made by the NYPD, only traffic accidents involving imminent or actual death are investigated.
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Dash cameras are popular in Russia for several reasons including possible disputes over traffic accidents and the corrupt reputations of police in many areas.
Makowsky from Townson University and Thomas Stratmann from George Mason University argue that the increase in the number of traffic tickets leads to a decrease in the number of accidents.
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It's difficult to track the exact role smartphones play in traffic accidents, since many wrecks are caused by more than one factor.
There have been reports that the Blackberry outage there last week coincided with a 40% decrease in traffic accidents, with speculation that drivers were focused on the road rather than on their bricked phones.
That was just a fraction of the total of 691, 937 reported traffic accidents in 2011.
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Our laws will have to be updated for a new relationship between people and cars, but the benefits will be significant: fewer traffic accidents and fewer gridlocked roads and, perhaps best of all, young people will be in self-driving cars, not teenager-driven cars.
Beyond the more than 30, 000 lives lost per year due to traffic accidents, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, tens of billions of dollars are spent each year on accidents, according to The Detroit News.
Not only do commuters in Southern California inhale the worst year-round particle pollution levels, but Riverside drivers also face the highest rate of fatal auto accidents per capita, and Los Angeles drivers spend the most time sitting in traffic.
It has been blamed for road traffic accidents where people have fallen asleep behind the wheel.
Google thought big when it aimed to reduce accidents, the time and energy wasted in traffic, and the number of cars on the road by 90 percent.
Men have always died more in traffic accidents -- initially, they were the more frequent drivers -- but even as women have dramatically increased their mileage in recent decades, the gap has barely budged: 61, 000 men were involved in fatal auto crashes in 2007, compared to only 33, 000 women.
But even by the 1920s it was becoming controversial, as urban congestion and traffic accidents mounted.
An estimated 1.3 million people die in traffic-related accidents each year, according to the World Health Organization.
Tina Fallon said the latest accidents at the bridge on Derby Road were causing traffic problems along the road and train delays.
One quarter killed themselves, 11% died in "breaches of safety", and 9% died in transport or traffic accidents, he said at a meeting of the armed forces' leadership.
In the summer, more people are on the road, and when there is more traffic, there are more accidents.
In 2010, in more than 6, 000 New York City traffic accidents involving cyclists, 36 people died, according to the state Department of Motor Vehicles.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that in 2010 18% of injury accidents (3, 092 deaths and 416, 000 injuries) involved driver distraction eating, grooming, talking on a cellphone or texting.
For example, the greatest risks even in some of the scariest parts of the world are not of kidnap or murder, but of illness, traffic accidents or violent crime.
It will link cars to the city's traffic control centre and divert drivers away from traffic jams and accidents.
Just like accidents, leaks are bound to happen and attempts to stop the traffic will fail, says Mr Schneier, the security expert.
It also points out that the Met Police stopped using appeal boards for crimes other than murders or road traffic accidents in 2009.
Cars that can "see" the road, sense potential dangers and steer, brake and control speed automatically could ease the drudgery of stop-and-go traffic or long drives, and prevent many accidents caused by drowsy, inattentive or impaired drivers.
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