Page 5 - News Releases

Growing up in Kansas was loud. Sure, our family often traveled to the country or the lake for some peace and quiet, but for the most part it was pretty noisy. We lived by the highway, so the constant hum of traffic is something that I have trouble sleeping without.

Some places were louder than others. Excited teenagers would often rev their souped-up Hondas in the Golden Corral parking lot. A perfect Saturday night. I was across the street in the CD Trade Post/Taco Bell parking lot, learning how to skateboard. My yellow Subaru made a lot of noises, but none of them were impressive.

Of course, New...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Nov. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Michelin North America, Inc., a unit of Michelin Group, the worldwide leader in tire innovation and sales, has selected Swisslog Warehouse & Distribution Solutions (WDS) to automate a new distribution center in the U.S. The order value of the automation project amounts to a high double-digit-million euro range and was booked in the second quarter of 2016.

The new distribution center will supply passenger and truck tires throughout North America, allowing the company to meet its ambitions for responsible logistics. Swisslog has been engaged to automate...

Rideshare driving is a relatively new phenomenon, our only past experience to draw upon has been taxi driving. When services like Uber or Lyft broke through to the mainstream, the once foreign concept of regular drivers taxiing you around was strange. But, it is interesting that it took such a long time to take hold, after all everyone past a certain age has driven or knows how to drive in some fashion.

Ridesharing was only the natural evolution of taxiing people around. One thing you’re never too experienced to accept is driving safety tips.

 Basic Rideshare Safety Guidelines

 As a rideshare...

MUNICH, Nov. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- As the electronica trade fair starts today in Munich, TE Connectivity Ltd. (NYSE: TEL) (TE), a world leader in connectivity and sensors, says that trust is at the heart of the industry's ability to develop systems people rely on to connect their entire lives. That's because the technology in everything from cars, trucks and homes to aircraft and factories are increasingly mission-critical.

For example, according to recent U.S. government data, 94 percent of car crashes are caused by human error. Fortunately, some early data from the auto industry suggests that...

BOSTON, Nov. 04, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zipcar, the world’s leading car-sharing network, today announced that it will make over 7,000 vehicles across the United States free for its members’ use on election night to encourage its members to get out and vote.  Select vehicles will be free from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on November 8 in all markets in which Zipcar operates, including hundreds of cities and towns and over 500 college campuses.

Zipcar members can reserve a vehicle starting today for those select evening hours and are encouraged to carpool with friends and family members to #DRIVEtheVOTE...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced that the last of the nearly 16,000 U.S. heavy trucks voluntarily recalled earlier this year by Volvo Trucks North America for a serious steering defect have been identified and repaired, achieving an extraordinary 100 percent vehicle safety recall completion in a very short period of time. The recall was overseen by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in collaboration with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).

"Over the last nine months, our USDOT team and Volvo Trucks have been laser-focused...

There’s a big difference between spooky fun and dangerous scares. Follow these car safety tips to drive safely so that you, and everyone in your neighborhood, have a Happy Halloween! According the NHTSA, Halloween is one of the three deadliest days of the year for pedestrians, and the top deadliest day of the year for pedestrians between the ages of 5 and 14.

Even in the days leading up to Oct 31^st, children will be out trick-or-treating. Peak trick-or-treating time is 5:30pm-9pm, so it is especially dangerous this year as Halloween falls on a Monday. Kids may be distracted by all the spooky...

Kelly (my fiance) and I are back in Kansas this week. We flew home for a friend’s wedding and hopefully the birth of Kelly’s nephew. I’m ready for the invariable question.

“Tyler, what do you do in New York?”

“I heard you have a hot dog cart!”

“I heard you work in a cheese department!”

Well, some of that is true. I have worked in a cheese department and for a restaurant that specializes in gourmet hot dogs. But my favorite New York job is the one I have now. I proudly help keep people safe. Rear View Safety offers backup camera systems, backup sensor systems, mobile DVR’s, driver fatigue systems...

For many drivers it’s hard to think back to a time without technology assisted driving apparatuses. Though there are still many vehicles on the road that lack rear-view cameras and sensors, it has now become the norm in the past couple years to equip all vehicles with one iteration of this technology or another.

A lot of this technology has had the added benefit of improving driving conditions, reducing accidents and being a safer more reliable tool. Parking cameras not only add safety to your vehicle, but more importantly the safety of any unknowing pedestrians who may be running around unseen...

It won’t stop happening. On Tuesday an 11-month-year old boy tragically died after being left in a hot car. He is the 38^th child to die this year from vehicular heatstroke. Something needs to change. NOW. This problem effects everyone, and it needs to be stopped.

I was babysitting my niece and nephew when I read the news, I immediately thought of them. They were sleeping in the other room while my fiancé and I watched celebrities make deviled eggs on the Food Network. I also thought of my other nieces and nephews, who live across the country and I should call more. I thought of my friend’s children...

I’m so thankful that I grew up in a large family. All 3 of my older brothers now have families of their own and we are very spread out, (2 on the west coast, 2 on the east coast). My parents still live in the Midwest. I’m lucky. I live in the same Brooklyn neighborhood as one sibling. Growing up we traveled a lot. My brothers played soccer almost year round and we were always driving to Nebraska or Oklahoma for tournaments.

These tournaments were a great way to see a different part of the country and also spend quality time packed in the car with my family. Thinking back on it, I wish we had a...

My mother was the librarian at the school I attended from Pre-K to 8^th grade. It was actually pretty awesome. I rode to school with her every day and sometimes we wore matching sweaters (I’ve already texted her asking for pictures, hopefully coming soon). She also ran the summer camp program, so I spent my summers in the library until I was old enough to stay home by myself.

The school is in Topeka, KS, but some of the students lived in Lawrence, KS, (where I ended up going to college, Rock Chalk!) about 30 minutes away. These students took “The Lawrence Bus” to school, which looking back on it...

As long as I can remember I’ve always loved the water. As a child I looked forward to spending every summer with my family at the lake. Riding in the boat, swimming in the water and eating ice cream on the dock. I’m from the Midwest, we were always outside. Looking back on it, those summers were pretty lo-tech.

I’m the last of 4 children (All boys, sorry, Mom!) so it was always a circus getting us together in the car for anything. We took turns helping my Dad guide the SUV to the hitch.

“A little more, a little more, a bit more, a tiny bit more, OK STOP! You all heard me, I said stop!”

Somewhere...

Yesterday the U.S Department of Transportation (USDOT) issued a Federal Automated Vehicles Policy. The new policy ensures consistent safe testing and regulations for self-driving vehicles. Existing safety standards make it nearly impossible for manufacturers to certify automated vehicles. It makes sense, as the standards were made under the assumption there would be a human driving.

“Automated vehicles have the potential to save thousands of lives, driving the single biggest leap in road safety that our country has ever taken,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx in a press release...

This morning U.S. Representatives Tim Ryan (D-13th OH), Peter King (R-2nd NY) and Jan Schakowsky (D-9th IL) introduced the Helping Overcome Trauma for Children Alone in Rear Seats Act (HOT CARS Act of 2016). The HOT CARS act requires technology in passenger vehicles to alert the driver when a passenger is left in the back seat.

"This legislation will address the needless deaths of children from heatstroke when unintentionally left in vehicles," said Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety president Jackie Gillian in a media conference call on the legislation.

This bipartisan initiative would prevent...

I still remember the day I got my driver’s license. After a year with a learner’s permit driving to and from high school, countless hours driving with my parents, and a frustrating 30 minutes in a technical school parking lot with my brother trying to learn stick (Sorry, Walker), the day finally arrived.

The written test was easy. I studied hard, I needed this license. The driving test was with 3 other potential drivers. When I was up, I drove defensively, checked all my mirrors and passed with flying colors. I was so relieved and proud. I could almost taste the milkshakes I was going to buy after...

Many accidents happen every year because of distracted drivers. Sometimes these can result in serious injuries or death to the driver and other road users and pedestrians.

In fact, over eight people a day are killed due to distracted driving in the United States every day. And the use of apps like Pokemon Go while driving have also led to car accidents.

As a result, it's important that we try to reduce this problem as much as possible.

As well as taking common sense advice to avoid becoming distracted while driving, there are also a number of apps and technologies being released that could provide...

There are new stories about semi-autonomous technology every day. Many companies are throwing their hat into this ring, but what do consumers look for when buying a new car? Though the average consumer is highly motivated by tech options when purchasing a new car, many are still unfamiliar with the latest features.

The 2016 Nielsen AutoTECHCAST Report, an annual study highlighting consumer preference on advanced vehicle technologies, reports that only 25% of the nearly 12,000 U.S of new car buyers surveyed are familiar with 44 vehicle-related technologies.

Rear view backup camera systems, smartphone-linked...

Autonomous vehicles are the future, and in some cases, the present. While the debate is now whether to go completely autonomous or add a feature one step at a time, many of these safety solutions already exist.

While Ford has teamed up with Mobileye and Delphi have teamed up to create an off the shelf self-driving system, The Mobileye Collision Avoidance System is available from Rear View Safety. This system features many built-in ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems), including lane departure warnings, forward collision warnings and pedestrian/bicycle collision warnings.

The Lukas Dual Lens...