Feds Waive Trucking Regs Ahead of Hurricane Florence. They Should Kill Them Permanently.
What are necessary public safety protections in calm weather become life-threatening red tape when disaster strikes.
What are necessary public safety protections in calm weather become life-threatening red tape when disaster strikes.
The figure refers to crashes in which a driver exceeded the threshold at which state law presumes impairment.
Once again, government would best serve the public by just getting out of the way.
But other cities want to crack down on the services anyway.
The Drake-inspired viral challenge has seen the nation's youth fling themselves out of moving vehicles.
Restricting guns-or vans, knives, or planes-won't make the world safer. The Toronto van attack reminds us peril lies in people with bad intent, not with how they get it done.
Club leader tells Reason, "We have an impeccable safety track record."
Conventional cars didn't need FDA-style regulation, and neither do self-driving cars.
The TIGER grant program has come under fire for putting politics ahead of technical concerns.
These days, death lurks behind gas pumps, inside water bottles, and under throw pillows.
Spectacular but rare accidents receive the bulk of the attention.
A large new study out of the U.K. proves it.
The show, based on the work of Philip K. Dick, is like Black Mirror but if people were sometimes good.
Don't freak out about a slight fall in the number of federal safety inspectors.
Less flashy improvements would save more lives for far less money.
States with legal pot should not define DUI based on a "mythical link" between THC blood levels and impairment.
Do we need a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to drive?
Hungry Cabbage Patch Kids, loose bear eyeballs, hot Creepy Crawlers, and more
No vehicle is truly self-driving if a "safety driver" is still sitting in the front seat
Lenore Skenazy, Jonathan Haidt, Peter Gray, and Daniel Shuchman launch, Let Grow, a non-profit devoted to promoting better policies for raising children.
Bad policy and paranoid parenting are making kids too safe to succeed.
"Marijuana-related" crashes are not necessarily related to marijuana.
Please don't eat your toys.
So why do cops rely so much on the practice? Enforcing traffic laws is a large share of what they do.
Companies are more likely to adapt more quickly to issues.
The idea that ice cream men cruise around looking for victims is simply an urban myth.
Michigan's "zero tolerance" standard for THC-positive motorists inflicts another injustice.
Most candidates know how to say the right words, but playing up to fears is still popular.
Angela Castner tested positive for THC because she used doctor-prescribed Marinol to relieve the side effects of chemotherapy.
The network misreads federal data, conflating positive drug tests with impairment.
The bipartisan Campus Accountability and Safety Act could cost colleges millions for failure to follow complex and costly new sexual-misconduct policies.
Friday A/V Club: The strange horror of The Finishing Line
There may be "more rough sex" in today's pornography, but that's because the porn market is more diverse overall.
Slashing the restraints on the agency's slow and burdensome process.
Cellphones figure in something like 1 percent of traffic fatalities, and holding them is not the main distraction.
Don't drive and … touch … anything?
Go for full self-driving capability, not half-assed autonomy.
And making a mess of civil liberties and people's lives in the process
What algorithms will actually save the most lives in the long run?