McHenry Forum - Crash Reconstruction & Simulation

June 10, 2012: Just finished reading the book. Excellent excellent book! Interesting dialog on how many vehicles came to be, with interesting asides and tangents on all the stories, great read. Highly Recommended! Some of the chapters cover such things as: From the Model T, Henry Ford, & Mass ma...

The following demonstrates many of the flaws in the Yellow light timing arguments against red light cameras: 2012 TRB Report: Guidelines for Timing Yellow and Red Intervals at Signalized Intersections Hugh McGee, Sr, Kevin Moriarty,Timothy J. Gates Available from TRB for $20. Click View PDF and foll...

June 8, 2012: NY Times Head Injury Lawsuits Against N.F.L. Consolidated Scores of lawsuits involving thousands of former players touched by concussions and brain injuries have been consolidated into one master complaint, setting up a huge case for the N.F.L. Lawyers for the players filed the complai...

June 8, 2012: NY Times Fast-Paced Thieves Reinvent the Wheel Crime Wheel and tire thefts are resurgent around the country, thanks to anonymous online marketplaces that provide easy access to customers, and advances in power tool technology that allow thieves to remove them with the speed of a Nascar...

here's another publication on the topic: White, K., Merala, R., Desautels, D., and Ellis-Caleo, T., " Rollout Deceleration of Modern Passenger Vehicles ," SAE Technical Paper 2012-01-0616, 2012 Abstract: Vehicle post-impact travel distances are often available to the accident reconstructio...

June 2012: NTSB Driver Fatigue and Speed Caused Fatal Bus Crash, Investigators Say The National Transportation Safety Board , in its final hearing on the crash, attributed the accident to the sleep-deprived driver’s fatigue. Investigators said records from his cellphone and a car rental agency showe...

May 31, 2012: NY Times Personal Tech section: Up-to-Date Tricks for Aging Wheels CARS on American highways are getting older. The average vehicle is now nearly 11 years old, up from about nine years in 2001, according to the R. L. Polk automotive research company. That means many drivers in the “dad...

May 2012: ENGINES OF CHANGE: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Ingrassia comes a narrative of America like no other: a cultural history that explores how cars have both propelled and reflected the national experience—from the Model T to the P...

May 29, 2012: NY Times Employees Are Getting the Word About Safer Driving From the article: About a year ago, the National Safety Council , a nonprofit advocacy group, contacted Fortune 500 companies on their policies. Of the 150 or so companies that responded, 20 percent had a full cellphone ban in...

May 30, 2012: A recent book covered on NPR demonstrates yet another innocent man put to death by Texas! This is a separate story/person from our prior post Texas executed a legally and factually innocent person On NPR today The Story Columbia Law School professor James Liebman organized his students...