Vehicle Safety

Age-Related Changes in Driver Attention

As populations age, understanding how attention, vision, and hearing change behind the wheel can help design safer roads, vehicles, and alerts for drivers of all ages.

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Use of auditory icons as emergency warnings in real cars and simulated worlds

What happens when you replace generic beeps with horn and tyre sounds in collision warnings, and what that tells us about safer in-vehicle alerts.

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Big Cars, Small Freedom

How oversized SUVs and pickup trucks are sabotaging walkable cities, safety, and climate — and why we need to deflate the big-car arms race.

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It's Not the E-Bikes. It's the Electric Motorcycles in the Bike Lane.

Why scary ‘e-bike’ crashes are usually electric motorcycles in disguise—and how enforcing existing class rules can fix the problem without banning real e-bikes.

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Hövding Airbag Bike Helmets: Rise, Fall, and What Comes Next

A deep dive into Hövding’s airbag ‘invisible helmet’ for cyclists: how it works, what safety testing found, why it was pulled from the market, and how the brand is being revived.

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The Right Hook: Why Protected Lanes Still Kill at Intersections

Protected bike lanes save lives mid-block, but many serious crashes still happen at intersections. Here’s why right hooks remain deadly—and how better design plus tools like Loud Bicycle horns can help.

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Sex Differences in Driver Risk and Behavior

What the evidence actually shows about male and female drivers: exposure, risk-taking, crash rates, injury vulnerability, and how much of the gap is culture versus biology.

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Why Your Eyes Lie to You Behind the Wheel

Drivers think they ‘look’ but don’t see. Here’s how human vision fails people on bikes—and why a car-like horn can pierce that blindness.

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