New research is revealing the underlying factors behind distracted driving, and delivering the brain-hacking solution.
read moreUnsurprisingly, with many roads and highways carrying fewer vehicles during the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia recorded a welcome and sharp 14.6 per cent decrease in road fatalities in the June quarter. But even with this decline, Australia is not on track to meet its national road trauma targets by December this year.
read moreThe role of states and territories in road safety is very well understood. They license drivers, they register cars, they build and own roads. It’s their police forces that enforce their respective road rules and it’s their hospitals that deal with the 100 Australians who suffer road trauma each day.
read moreThe Australian Automobile Association (AAA) has expressed scepticism about a new, voluntary carbon dioxide (CO2) emission standard announced by Australia’s automotive industry, which appears to contain no compliance mechanisms.
read moreAt 43 deaths per million residents, Australia’s road toll is higher than that of 10 European countries, and the longer term picture gives us more to worry about.
read moreThe AAA has welcomed renewed calls for state, federal and territory Treasurers to bring electric vehicles into a road-user charging system
read moreThe nation’s peak motoring body, the Australian Automobile Association (AAA), has congratulated two of Australia’s leading road safety, motoring and mobility advocates, Elizabeth Perry and Ian Gillespie, on being awarded Membership of the Order of Australia as a part of today’s Queen’s Birthday Honours.
read moreThe Australian Automobile Association strongly supports moves by all levels of government to bring forward ‘shovel ready’ road works and transport infrastructure projects during the COVID19 pandemic.
read moreAs another compensation claim is awarded against Volkswagen, The Australian newspaper has reported that Australians no longer trust the advertised emissions labels on new cars.
read moreThe collective government response to COVID-19 could become a model for future health and safety challenges.
read moreAustralia’s peak motoring body says the Federal Government’s ‘Technology Investment Roadmap’ to accelerate low emission technologies is right to focus on the challenge of balancing the protection of consumer choice with the protection of the environment.
read moreWhile COVID-19 travel restrictions remain in place and many cars stay largely dormant, another potential threat to human life still looms in some of those cars – a faulty Takata airbag.
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