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Author:  Denis Foley.


Source: Volume 21, Number 03, Summer 2017 , pp.49-50(2)




Impaired Driving Update

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Abstract: 

Mileposts is our regular briefing on interesting and important news and development in the areas of highway traffic safety and accident prevention, transportation policy, and the recent findings about the effects of substance use and technology on driver behavior and vehicular safety. Drones used to construct car crashes; role of increased depressant and alcohol use in traffic fatalities; Japan tries offering meal discounts to get elderly out from behind the wheel; and Takata finally admits culpability in airbag failures.

Keywords: Accident reconstructions; antidepressants and vehicle use; elderly drivers; Takata airbags

Affiliations:  1: Editor.

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