Citation

Sokulski GS. Railw. Track Struct. 2006; 102(10): 56.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Simmons-Boardman Publishing)

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Abstract

The views of George S. Sokulski, associate publisher, Chicago Perspective, on highway safety, are presented. Cars in the US are stuffed with air bags and several other government-mandated safety features, but still highway related accidents claim about 40,000 lives every year. Cars have become safer than earlier as they include lot of safety features such as air bags, crush zones, collapsible steering wheels, padded dashboards, and other engineering changes. Search reports in the field of highway safety reveal that the benefits from engineering safer cars are small compared with the safety impacts of driving behavior. Findings from the statistical analysis show that individual driving habit has to be improved so as to ensure optimum highway safety.