Posts by Ken McLeod
Should Vehicles Help Drivers Not Speed?
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently made headlines for recommending that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) should require all new vehicles to have intelligent speed assistance systems…
Read MoreSlow Roads Save Lives Webinar Recap
The Slow Roads Save Lives campaign has big goals, such as reframing how roads are designed to place safety and people first, and a simple idea at its core —…
Read MoreSlow Roads Save Lives – Reframing Road Design
Slow Roads Save Lives. It’s simple physics. But to fully realize the lifesaving power of slower roads, it will take more than doing the math. We must reframe how speed…
Read MoreWebinar Recap: Slow Roads Save Lives
People biking should get home safely, every time. But bicyclist deaths are at a 45-year high. The crisis of traffic violence on our roads needs solutions. One of those is…
Read MoreWebinar: Slow Roads Save Lives
When the League of American Bicyclists was founded in 1880, one of our biggest campaigns and achievements was the Good Roads Movement. In 1889, Colonel Albert Pope of the then…
Read MoreU.S. Must Lead on Safety in Race to Develop Self-Driving Vehicles
The House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce has scheduled a hearing on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, at 10:30 a.m. (E.T.) on “Self-Driving…
Read MoreAs NHTSA joins rest of world on pedestrian safety tests, bicyclists are left out
According to the vision statement on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)’s website, “NHTSA aims to be the global leader in motor vehicle and highway safety.” But, in both…
Read MoreUneven Start for Safety Funding
For more than a decade, the League of American Bicyclists and other safety groups fiercely advocated for a “fair share for safety” in federal funding. We wanted to ensure that…
Read MoreBetter Crash Data That Doesn’t Victim Blame
“Blame is how we control the terror stirred up by the seeming randomness of accidental tragedy. There is nothing productive in this process.” – Jessie Singer, There are No Accidents…
Read MoreNew fatality data for 2021 shows increase in bicyclist deaths
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently released a detailed overview on the deadliness of our roadways in 2021, the most recent year for which complete statistics are now available.…
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