Tag Archives for U.S.
Major automakers will install auto-brakes by 2022
Being involved in a car accident is a terrible fate that many drivers someday meet. According to David Shepardson of Automotive News, in order to prevent approximately 1 million crashes a year in which drivers fail to hit the brakes, or to apply enough braking power, major automakers have agreed to add automatic-braking systems to […]
August auto sales up!
The month of August was a record reaching one in the U.S. for new-car sales. “It was an improving economy, generous incentive spending and increased demand for trucks and sport-utilities that lifted the annualized selling pace to an eight-year high… Overall, industry sales rose to an annualized 17.5 million pace, according to researcher Autodate Corp., […]
“It’s something needed in the U.S.”: encouraged bystander CPR
A new study from Denmark shows an increase in the number of people who survive cardiac arrest when the nation encouraged bystanders to step in and perform CPR. After analyzing data from over 19,000 people who went into cardiac arrest someplace other than a hospital between June 2001 and December 2010, researchers found that the […]