Study: Side air bags lower driver deaths
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Driver deaths in side-impact collisions dropped by more than half in sport utility vehicles equipped with head-protecting side air bags, insurance industry research shows.
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Japan's Honda Motor has launched research into developing the first safety airbags that could be mounted on motorcycles, a report said.
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Safety belts accounted for 160,000  or more than half of all lives saved in the United States by  auto safety features adopted since 1960, a government analysis  showed on Tuesday.
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When two bodies were found in a rig at a truck stop on the well-traveled route to Houston, some drivers figured it was an accident &#151; maybe carbon monoxide poisoning. When another body was discovered there weeks later, they called it a mystery.
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The auto industry is debating whether it can change the incidence of fatalities by designing cars and trucks that are less deadly in collisions with pedestrians.
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NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters Life!) - Drivers who spend a significant amount of time behind the wheel face a greater risk of developing skin cancer on the left side of the body, according to new U.S. research.
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Motorists give greater leeway to   cyclists who do not wear safety helmets, according to a study   by a academic in Britain who was hit by traffic twice as he   rode his bike to carry out his research.
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(Nov. 15) -- Would your car protect your head and neck in case of a crash? The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety tested restraint systems in dozens of cars.
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Engineers test an airbag system that could be used to cushion a European rover's landing on Mars.
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Traveling in traffic triples the risk of heart attack for an hour afterwards, a study has found. Car exhaust, noise and stress brought on by congestion are likely to be the main causes of the increase in risk.
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NEW YORK - The newly released traffic crash fatality data have something for everyone in the debate about the safety of sport utility vehicles.
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An increase in smog sparks a small but measurable increase in deaths, scientists report in a study showing the strongest link yet between smog and damage to health.
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The U.S. government on Wednesday effectively ordered auto manufacturers to install the most advanced head and side air bags in new vehicles starting in 2009 by demanding more protection for drivers and passengers in side-impact crashes.
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By Sanford Nax, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  May 27--David Duley compares the fire escape ladders his company makes to air bags in a car: you hope you never use them, but it's nice to know they are there.   Some home builders are coming to the same conclusion.
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Stanford researcher finds first link between rising levels of carbon dioxide and increased human mortality, a finding that could bolster efforts by California and 15 other states to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles.
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Vehicles with sensors that can, for example, automatically apply brakes are 41 percent less likely to get into single-vehicle crashes, which account for 60 percent of all fatal crashes, according to government statistics.
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An increase in smog sparks a small but measurable increase in deaths, scientists report Wednesday in a study showing the strongest link yet between smog and damage to health.