Although automakers work to make cars safer every year, there is still a potential that a collision between a car and a pedestrian might result in serious injuries or even fatalities. Over the past ...

The reflective, “high-visibility” safety vests worn by road workers and first responders, not to mention joggers and dog walkers, may do absolutely nothing to protect their wearers from automated ...

Pedestrian detectors in self-driving cars are less likely to detect kids and people of color, study shows. This is due to bias in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars rely, researchers say.

AI has a notorious history of biases, from facial recognition systems misidentifying Black people to chatbots admiring Hitler. In some settings, the outcomes could be deadly. A case in point was ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — New research from AAA claims that automatic emergency braking systems in vehicles with pedestrian detection are inconsistent and they proved to be completely ineffective at night ...

Las Vegas officials received a $1.4 million federal grant to be invested in an artificial intelligence pedestrian detection system on the Fremont Street corridor. The project will look to increase ...

Highway workers and many pedestrians and cyclists often wear high-visibility clothing to give themselves a better chance of being noticed by drivers, but new research shows that this type of clothing ...

Six months after Florida state legislators passed House Bill 657, which approved speed detection systems to enforce school-zone speed limits, Altumint, a public safety technology company, completed a ...

The rise of autonomous vehicles has brought significant advancements in safety features. The $53 billion autonomous vehicle industry has taken the transportation sector by storm. Yet, the challenge of ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed new rules this week that would require that new cars be equipped with automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection. Automatic ...