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Bookmark or Share- New crash tests show modest speed increases can have deadly consequencesSmall speed increases can have huge effects on crash outcomes, as shown in new crash tests by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and Humanetics. The safety organizations conducted crashes at three different impact speeds (40, 50 and 56 mph). They found the slightly higher speeds were enough ...
- Maximum posted speed limits - IIHS-HLDIThe highest posted limit in Utah is currently 80mph. ↩. Footnote 10 In Washington State, maximum speed limits on highways or portions of highways may be posted as high as 75 mph if based on a traffic and engineering study, effective August 2015. ↩. Footnote 11 In Wyoming, the speed limit may be increased to 80 mph on specific segments of ...
- Speed - IIHS-HLDICurrently, 22 states have maximum speed limits of 70 mph, and 11 states have maximum speed limits of 75 mph on some portion of their roadway systems. On some sections of interstates in eight states, speed limits are 80 mph. In October 2012, a 41-mile stretch of Texas State Highway 130 opened with a speed limit of 85 mph.
- Speed limit increases are tied to 37,000 deaths over 25 years - IIHS-HLDIRising speed limits over the past 25 years have cost nearly 37,000 lives, including more than 1,900 in 2017 alone, a new study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows. The research, an update of a 2016 analysis, calls attention to the trade-off between a few minutes of saved travel time and the increased risk of fatalities.
- Most drivers would be OK with anti-speeding tech in ... - IIHS-HLDIThe little icon with the local speed limit that pops up in the corner of the Apple Maps, Google Maps and Waze apps is a simple version. (Waze and some other less well-known apps also offer additional ISA functions.) More robust ISA systems sound a warning or flash an alert when the driver exceeds the limit — or when they exceed it by more ...
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