McHenry Forum - Crash Reconstruction & Simulation

Feb 2014: U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Decision to Move Forward with Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Technology for Light Vehicles WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced today that it will begin taki...

Feb 23, 2014: And for more information...The NY Times Sunday Magazine had an interview with author David Hand who recently wrote The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles and Rare Events Happen Every Day.

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Fatal Crashes Among Elderly Drivers Are Declining, IIHS Study Says Maybe it's OK to let grandpa keep those keys a little longer. A February 2014 study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety finds car-crash deaths have fallen quite a bit among older drivers during the past 15 years. The rate ...

Feb 17, 2014: ISHN Magazine: Highway fatalities an “epidemic,” says NTSB which begins: Transportation fatalities in the United States increased by three percent in 2012 from 2011, according to preliminary figures released last week by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) . Fatalities in a...

Feb 2014: Be sure to see our preliminary msmac3D benchmark results. Please note: Special discounts and exclusive Beta participation will be offered in the next 30 to 60 days ONLY to CURRENT medit32/msmac clients . If you are current, Thank you! We will be sending out emails in the next month. If you...

Feb 19, 2014: Below is a chart of the Speed Factor comparison between msmac , our currently distributed 2D smac program with our soon to be released msmac3D . We used the inputs for msmac validation runs from our RICSAC97 paper For msmac3D we first ran it in '2D' mode to insure the results are the s...

Feb 2014: As we prepare for our release of our msmac3D program in the near future, we have recently begun actively running speed benchmark tests on msmac3D and the results are amazing! The msmac3D simulations of vehicles colliding is approaching real-time with simple optimization of the code (our 2D...

Feb 16, 2014: NY Times: Is the Universe a Simulation? by Edward Frenkel With simulation in the title, and programming in the text, and my being a simulation programmer, i simply HAD to post this little ditty up. Mathematical truths exist and are merely waiting for us to discover them. Consider some ...

Feb 16, 2014: NY Times: Social media, a Trove of Clues and Confessions More on social media issues which can help in some cases, which raise 5th amendment issues in others, and which can wreak havoc on jury deliberations and decisions: "Like everyone else, jurors are accustomed to reaching for ...

Feb 12, 2014: NY Times Graco Recalls Car Seats Over Faulty Buckle Graco Children’s Products is recalling almost 3.8 million car seats because faulty buckles can make it hard to free the child in an emergency, the company said on Tuesday. NHTSA is asking Graco to increase the recall by 1.8 million ad...